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What is allusion?

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A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural literary or political significance.

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What is mood/atmosphere?

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Atmosphere- a type of feelings a reader gets from a narrative based on details such as setting, background, objects and foreshadowing.

Mood- evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions.

Ex: “the river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on.”

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What is connotation?

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Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.

Ex: a dove implies peace and gentility.

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What is diction?

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A style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or writer. Word choice.

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What is colloquial language?

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Informal language.

Ex: “what’s up?”
Gonna

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What is figurative language?

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Language in which figures of speech are used to make it effective, persuasive, and impactful.

Includes simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, etc.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between 2 different things.

Ex: She is as graceful as a new born bird.

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What is alliteration?

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of near or closely connected word.

Ex: A big bully beats a baby boy.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two thing or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristic in common.

Ex: she is a storm.

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What is personification?

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A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.

Ex: the flowers danced in the gentle breeze.

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What is hyperbole?

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A figure of speech which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.

Ex: I am am dying of shame

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What is image/imagery? Aural, olfactory, corporal, gustatory, visual, tactile, kinaesthetic.

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To use figurative language to buy present objects, actions and Ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.

Ex: it was dark and I’m in the forest.

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What is motif?

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An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.

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What is a symbolism/symbol?

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Symbolism: The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meaning that are different from their literal sense.

Symbol: using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

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What is a narrator?

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A person who tells a story; in literature the voice that the author takes on to tell the story.

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What is characterization?

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A literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.

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What is setting?

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Environment or surroundings in which an event or story takes place.

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What is structure?

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How the piece of writing set up.

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What is foreshadowing?

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A literary device in which a writer gives advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

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What is irony? Dramatic, verbal, situational

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A figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that they’re intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.

Ex: the name of britains biggest dog was tiny.

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What is plot

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Literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or the main part of the story

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What is a protagonist/antagonist?

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Protagonist: The central character or leading figure in poetry narrative novel or any other story.

Antagonist: I character or group of characters which stand in opposition to protagonist or the main character.

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What is dialogue?

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A literary technique in which riders employed to or more characters to be engaged in conversation with each other.

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What is a theme?

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A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly

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What is tone?

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An attitude of a brighter towards a subject or an audience.

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What is denotation?

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A literal or dictionary meanings of the word in contrast to its connotative or associated meaning.

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What is assonance?

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Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound that start with different consonant sounds.

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What is consonance?

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Refers to repetitive sound produced by consonants with in a sentence or phrase

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What is cacophony?

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Points to a situation where there is a mixture of harsh and in harmonist sounds.

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Is euphony?

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The use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or Loveliness the sound they create.

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What is caesuras?

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A pause in a poetic line or sentence.

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What is enjambment?

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Moving from one line to another without a terminating punctuation mark

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What is an and stop?

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When a line of poetry ends with a period Or definite punctuation mark.

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What is a couplet?

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Having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought

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What is a rhyme/half-rhyme?

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Rhyme: A repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines and poems or songs.

Half-rhyme: A rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.

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What is a free verse?

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A literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.

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What is a stanza?

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A division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming scheme.

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What is metonymy?

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A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else which it is closely associated with.

Ex: crown- in place of a royal person.

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What is apostrophe?

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When a character in a literary work speaks to an object, an idea, or someone who doesn’t exist as if it is a living person.

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What is a paradox?

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A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth.

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What is an oxymoron?

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I think your speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.

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What is juxtaposition?

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A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side-by-side in the narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparison and contrast

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What is contrast?

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Used to describe the differences between two or more entities.

44
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What is the pathetic fallacy?

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When an author gives human emotions and traits to nature or in animate object’s.

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What is synesthesia?

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A tech nique adopted writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time

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What is malapropism?

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The act of using an incorrect word in place of one that is similar in pronunciation

47
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What is satire?

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Technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule

48
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What is a pun

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A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings

49
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What is parallelism?

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The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter

50
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What is anaphora?

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The deliberate repetition of first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic affect

51
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What is analogy?

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Comparison in which an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it

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What is synecdoche?

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A literary device in which a part of something presents The whole or may use a whole to represent a part

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What is syntax?

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Dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. Set of rules in a language. Word flow

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