Terms Flashcards
Personification
Gives an object a human feeling or characteristic
The tree dancing happily
Alliteration
Words that have the same letter as the same word in front of it
The strict , stubborn stork
Onomatopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Gurgle
Simile
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind
He ate like a pig
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common.
I was in heaven when i ate this Ice cream
Sibilance
Sibilance is a literary device where strongly stressed consonants are created deliberately by producing air from vocal tracts through the use of lips and tongue
Sadly, Sam sold seven venomous serpents to Sally and Cyrus in San Francisco.
Rhetorical question
When a question is asked but not to be said
Is this the end of the world?
Colloquial language
How people talk to each other so informal
Ain’t or/and didn’t
Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements
I killed at least a million people
Imagery
Visually descriptive
The writer created it to show a sadder emotion
Noun
A noun is a word that refers to a thing
‘The man walked across the road’
Verb
A verb is a doing or an action to something
‘I was walking’
Adjective
Describing a noun
‘I walked to the scary house’
Adverb
Describing a verb
I was walking slowly
Repetition
Repetition is the simple repeating of a word.
‘Let it go, let it go, let it go’
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which apparently contradicting terms appear in conjunctions
‘The same difference’
Pronoun
A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun with ‘he or she’
‘He waved at her’
Abstract noun
A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.
‘The love is in the air’
Proper noun
Identifies a single entity
‘Dog , city , love , movie’
Collective noun
Is a collection of things taken as a whole.
‘A group of people’
Assonance
Resemblance of sound between the syllables of nearby words.
‘Killed , cold , culled’
Dialect
A particular form of language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group
‘Howdy , hello’
Dialogue
A conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book,play, or film
“Lisa” , said kyle “ i’m stuck help!”
Dissonance
Lack of agreement of harmony between people or things
“A baby crying , a person screaming and an alarm”
Enjambment
Runs over from one poetic line the next without terminal punctuation.
Irony
The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
Monologue
A long speech who is spoken by only one person
Pathos
A way of visualising the feelings of the audience
