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Literary Terms Part 4-6
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1A kind o rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination
- APoetry
- BSpeaker
- CStanza
2the voice talking in a poem.
- ARefrain
- BSpeaker
- CStanza
3group of lines forming a unit in a poem.
- APoetry
- BStanza
- CRhyme
4the general mood or feeling established in a piece of literature
- AAtmosphere
- BMood
- CTone
5emotional atmosphere produced b an artistic work (how the reader feels)
- ATone
- BIrony
- CMood
6attitude of the author toward a piece of literature (how the author feels)
- Atone
- Bsuspense
- Cinference
7the uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what will happen next in a story.
- Atone
- Bsuspense
- Cinference
8a reasonable conclusion made about something based on certain clues or facts.
- Atone
- Bsuspense
- Cinference
9an interruption of the sequence of a narrative to relate an action that happened at an earlier point in time.
- Aflashback
- Bforeshadow
- Cdialogue
10the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come.
- Aflashback
- Bforeshadow
- Cdialogue
11talk or conversation between two or more characters.
- Aflashback
- Bforeshadow
- Cdialogue
12a representation of the speech patterns of a particular region or social group.
- Aallusion
- Birony
- Cdialect
13a contrast between expectation and reality.
- Aallusion
- Birony
- Cdialect
14references to a work of literature or to an actual event, person, or place which the speaker expects the audience to recognize.
- Aallusion
- Birony
- Cdialect
15a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech.
- Arhythm
- Brhyme
- Crefrain
16a repetition of accented vowel sound and all sounds following them in words close together.
- Arhyme
- Brhythm
- Crefrain
17a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns.
- Arhyme
- Brhythm
- Crefrain
18words or phrases that describe something in a way that creates pictures, or images that appeal to the reader's senses.
- Aimagery
- Bsymbol
- Cconnotation
19something that stands for or represents something else.
- Aimagery
- Bsymbol
- Cconnotation
20all of the emotions and associations that a word or phrase arouses.
- Aimagery
- Bsymbol
- Cconnotation
21specific or literal meaning of a work or phrase (dictionary definition).
- Aoxymoron
- Balliteration
- Cdenotation
22the repetition of a sound in a group of words.
- Adenotation
- Balliteration
- Coxymoron
23when two opposite words are put together.
- Adenotation
- Balliteration
- Coxymoron
24A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.
- AConnotation
- BFigure of Speech
25the use of words whose sound in some degree imitates or suggest it's meaning.
- ARhyme
- BSymbol
- COxymoron
- DOnomatopoeia
26a figure of speech in which something non-human is given human qualities
- AHyperbole
- BPersonification
27A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration.
- AHyperbole
- BPersonification
28A play on words that have the some or similar sounds but different meanings.
- AIdiom
- BBentley's Jokes
- CSimile
- DPun
- EMetaphor
29an expression that is illogical and means something other than its literal statement.
- Aanything that comes out of mom's mouth.
- BMaygan's singing
- CIdiom
30an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.
- ATyler and Tvli
- BMarbury vs. Madison
- CMetaphor
- DSimile
31a comparison between tow unlike things, using a word such as like or as.
- AAny middle/high school girl you talk to.
- BDad
- Cmetaphor
- Dsimile
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- 8th grade Literary terms
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- T. Grigg
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- English
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