Terminology for analysing Flashcards
Asyndetic listing
Listing with commas
Syndetic listing
Listing with “and”
symbolism
objects, colours, sounds and places that work as a symbol
pathetic fallacy
tone/ mood created through descriptions of nature/ weather
Motif
Recurrent image, sound, action that has symbolic significance
tone/ mood/ atmosphere
General feelings/ impressions you get from a text
Types of languages (two)
Sensory
Emotive
Superlative
Highest kind of class of word
Sounding literary terms
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Clash! Zoom
Assonance
Repetition of similar vowel sounds
Shot a cool, foolish look across the room
Irony/ dramatic irony
- Says one thing…means other
- When audience of play know crucial information characters don’t
Rhythm
Term describing the pattern of stressed/ unstressed syllables
Sonnet
- Short poem
- Often on the subject of love
Syllables and types (two)
Smallest unit of speech.
Monosyllables= contain one syllable. “dog” “big” “shoes”
Polysyllables= contain more than one syllable
Conjunction
Word used to connect words
Satire
Literary stle that ridicules human vice/ folly
Tercet
Poem containing three lines
Allegory
Can be viewed as extended metaphors. Slightly shorter ones can be referred to as fables
Caesura
Pause within a line of poetry, gives poet opportunity to vary the meter. Can be comma
Consonance
Repetition of similar sounding consonants
Dramatic monologue
Single speaker, addresses his her audience
Motif
Recurring image/ idea in body of work
Pathetic Fallacy
Process of using weather/ external features to represent world of mankind
anaphora
context
denoument
exposition
lexical sets
oxymoron
phonology
soliloquy
symbolism
