Vocab Flashcards
Allegory
a story that uses characters that reflect people and storylines from the real world
Alliteration
Use of the same sounds at the beginning of words
Allusion
a referral within a work of literature to something else
Apostrophe
a device through which characters address other characters as if they were present through ideas and personifications
Assonance
when words close to each other repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds
Auditory Imagery
Imagery relating to sound
Aporia
an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty for rhetorical effect
Antithesis
direct contrast, opposition
Asyndeton
abscence of conjunction between two parts of a sentence
Anaphora
repetition at the beginning of the phrase or sentence
Alliteration
repetition of vowell sounds
Blank Verse
Iambic pentameter, doesn’t rhyme
Ab Ovo
Chronological order
Connotation
implied meaning aside from the explicit thing described
Consonance
repetitive consonant sounds
Dramatic Irony
irony created when readers know what is going to happen before characters
Catachresis
using the wrong word in the wrong context
Epistrophe
repetition at the end of phrases
Hyperbole
exaggerating ideas for emphasis
Metonymy
figure of speech that replaces a name with a name of something else
Olfactory Imagery
imagery relating to smell
Oxymoron
two opposite terms put together to cause a conflicting effect
Paradox
oxymoron, but longer
Synedoche
part that represents the whole
