Macro Techniques Flashcards
Figuarative language
Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Extended metaphor
Refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem
Simile
Comparison of one thing with another thing using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’
Personification
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
Symbolism
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Synaethesia
A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell and touch at a given time
Plosives
Denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air
Consonance
The recurrence of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity
Onomatopoeia
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Sibilance
Sibilance is a more specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a hissing sound in the writing
Assonance
Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants
Alliteration
The occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Irony
A rhetorical device, literary technique, or event which appears, on the surface to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case
