Module II Flashcards
(April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011), poet, fiction writer, teacher, and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.
Edith L. Tiempo
is the concrete representation of a sense impression, feeling, or
idea that triggers our imaginative ere-enactment of a sensory experience. Images may be visual (something seen), aural (something heard), tactile (something felt), olfactory (something smelled), or gustatory (something
tasted). Imagery may also refer to a pattern of related details in a poem.
Imagery
is a repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable: “descending dew drops;” “luscious lemons.” Alliteration is based on the sounds of letters, rather than the spelling of words; for example, “keen” and “car” alliterate, but “car” and “cite” do not.
Alliteration
is the repetition of similar internal vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry, as in “I rose and told him of my woe.” is the repetition of similar internal vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry, as in “I rose and told him of my woe.”
Assonance
refers to the literal meaning of a word, the “dictionary definition.”¨ For example, if you look up the word snake in a dictionary, you will discover that one of its denotative meanings is “any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles¡ Khaving a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions.”
Denotation
on the other hand, refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word. The connotative meanings of a word exist together with the
denotative meanings. The connotations for the word snake could include evil or danger.
Connotation
is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.
Symbolism
is defined as a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary
work, which may be stated directly or indirectly.
Theme
is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few
times to make an idea clearer and more memorable.
Repetition
is a form of language use in which the writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words.
Figurative Language
involves a comparison between unlike things using like or as. For instance, “My love is like a red, red rose.”
Simile
is a comparison between essentially unlike things without a word such as like or as. For example, “My love is a red, red rose.”
Metaphor
is a type of metaphor in which part of something is used to signify the whole, as when a gossip is called a “wagging tongue.”
Synecdoche
is a type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it, such as saying the “silver screen” to mean motion pictures.
Metonymy
is a figurative comparison endowing inanimate things.
Personification
