Prose and Poetry Terms Flashcards
The repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in words in close proximity.
Alliteration
a reference that authors assume their readers will recognize.
Allusion
Speaker in a poem addresses a person not present or an animal, inanimate object, or concept as though it is a person.
Apostrophe
The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity.
Assonance
a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.
Cacophony
a person any person, animal, or figure depicted in literary works(protagonist and antagonist)
Character
the struggle between opposing forces.
Conflict
The repetition of identical consonant sounds in different words in close proximity.
Consonance
the author’s word choice (denotation and connotation)
Diction
the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.
Euphony
a transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrupts the normal chronological order of events.
Flashback
when the author gives you hints about what will happen later on in the story
Foreshadowing
poetry that doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme
Free verse
exaggeration for effect.
Hyperbole
language that appeals to the senses.
Imagery
placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect
Juxtaposition
A comparison between two unlike things, this describes one thing as if it were something else.
Metaphor
a feeling created in the reader
Mood
A blending of consonant and vowel sounds designed to imitate or suggest the activity being described.
Onomatopoeia
a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings
Oxymoron
the use of similar grammatical structures
Parallelism
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things.
Personification
the perspective from which the story is told. A story can be told from the ——— of a character or a narrator.
Point of view
the selection is told through one person. It uses pronouns such as I, me/we, us or our
First person point of view
the reader becomes the main character. It uses the pronoun you
Second person point of view
the selection is told from the perspective of a single character. It refers to them by name or uses a third person pronoun such as he, she, or they
Third person limited point of view
the selection is told from the perspective of multiple characters. It uses the following pronouns: he/his, she/her, they/them/their.
Third person omniscient point of view
the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.
Repetition
when words sound alike.
Rhyme
the pattern of end rhyme in a poem.
Rhyme scheme
the time and place in which a story or event takes place
Setting
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses “like” or “as” to state the terms of the comparison.
Simile
A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic.
Stanza
the use of something concrete to represent something abstract.
Symbol
the author’s attitude towards their subject.
Tone
a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature. It is a statement that can be applied to multiple other texts and cannot be expressed in a single word.
Theme
the person / people for whom a text is intended
Audience
the author’s reason for writing / creating a text
Purpose
the logical order of ideas. When something has this, all of its parts fit together well. It is created though the following: pronoun reference; parallel structure; repetition of a key word or its synonym; and transitional devices
Coherence
when special importance, value, or prominence given to something. In writing, these devices can help specific elements (example: key ideas) stand out to the reader.
Emphasis
The practice of ending an essay by returning to an image, an idea, or a statement that occurs in the beginning.
Closing by Return
a quality of oneness or togetherness. When a piece of writing is unified, no part of the work is irrelevant. All information in an essay is relevant to the thesis and the topic sentence.
Unity
a sentence or two that states the main idea of a writing assignment.
Thesis statement
a sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
Topic sentence
