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Metalanguage Flashcards

1
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Imagery that evokes sight

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Visual

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Imagery that evokes taste

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Gustatory

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Imagery that evokes smell

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Olfactory

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Imagery that evokes touch

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Tactile

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5
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Imagery that evokes bodily sensations

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Viceral

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Imagery that evokes sound

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Aural

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Imagery that evokes movement

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Kinaesthetic

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8
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Comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

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Simile

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9
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The direct comparison of two unlike things

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Metaphor

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10
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Exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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11
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Attributing humanlike qualities to non-human things

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Personification

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12
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Attributing animalistic characteristics to humans

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Zoomorphism

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13
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Using a part to represent a whole (nice wheels = nice car)

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Synectoche

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14
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Using a related term to represent something ( The crown = the queen)

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Metonym

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15
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A common figurative expression (break a leg)

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Idiom

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16
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Where sound maches meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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17
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Two matching vowel sounds within a line

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Internal rhyme

18
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Two matching vowel sounds at the end of a line

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End rhyme

19
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Repeated consonant sound at the start of words near one another

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Alliteration

20
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Repeated consonant sounds near one another

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Consonance

21
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Use of words with discordant, sharp or jarring sounds

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Cacophony

22
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Use of words with pleasing sounds

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Euphany

23
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Repeated “s” sound in words near one another

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Sibilance

24
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The rhythmic structure of a poem

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Metre

25
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The word describing the voice of the poem (the person speaking)

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Speaker

26
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The word describing the arrangement or length of lines in a poem

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Lineation

27
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A “paragraph” in a poem

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Stanza

28
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The continuation of a phrase over a line break in a poem

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Enjambment

29
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A line in a poem that comes to a natural rest at the end

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End stopped line

30
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A pause in the middle of a line of poetry

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Caesura

31
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Short, sharp sentences

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Abrupt syntax

32
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Long, clause-heavy sentence

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Elaborate syntax

33
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Grammatically incomplete sentences

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Sentence fragments

34
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A reference in a text to another text, person or event

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Alusion

35
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The deliberate overuse of conjunctions like “and” in a sentence

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Polysyndeton

36
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The deliberate lack of conjunctions in a sentence

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Asyndeton

37
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An object or place that has a deeper, emblematic meaning

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Symbolism

38
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Placing two things side by side for comparison

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Juxtaposition

39
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The attitude of the text or a speaker within it

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Tone

40
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The style and formality of the language employed

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