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Flashcards by veronika.salla, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by veronika.salla
over 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The repetition of a consonant sound in the first syllable of a series of words: "Peper picked pickled peppers" | Alliteration |
| Either when characters or plot elements represent ideas; or when one thing is a metaphor of another completely unrelated to it | Allegory |
| Makes reference to a place or person or thing, either directly or by implication; it is often up to the reader to make the connection explicitly. | Allusion |
| Describing an inanimate or non-human object by reference to human characteristics | Anthropomorphism (personification) |
| The repetition of a vowel sound to create internal rhymes either within or between words or sentences: "proud round cloud" | Assonance |
| The omission of conjunctions from a series of clauses: "without looking, without making a sound, without talking" | Asyndeton |
| A pause on a line of poetry | Caesura |
| An extended metaphor, governing the logic of an entire passage or work: "This flea is you and I (...)" -- often surprising/shocking | Conceit |
| Carry-on lines; the continuation of a syntactic unit over a line break, signified by the absence of punctuation | Ejambment |
| The opposite of enjambment; the indication of syntactic closure at the end of a line by punctuation | End-stopping |
| Exaggeration | Hyperbole |
| To evoke a visual experience for the reader | Imagery |
| Simple repeating of words | Repetition |
| Describing something by asserting that it is similar in some way to something else, unconnected to it | Metaphor |
| When a thing is not called by its own name, but rather by the name of something associated with it | Onomatopoeia |
| The combination of contradictory temrs. Linked to paradox | Oxymoron |
| Juxtaposition of contradictory terms designated to create insight from the contrast | Paradox |
| Representing a thing through a symbol | Symbolism |
| A flashback | Analepsis |
| An anti-climax | Bathos |
| A plot that resolves difficult issues in one immediate way (sometimes unrealistically) | Deus ex machina |
| A trope when a character comes to a sudden realization accompanied by strong emotions, often transcendral. (In modernism, these are often bathetic) | Epiphany |
| A stroy which frames another story; a-story-within-a-story | Hypodiegesis |
| When a plot begins in the middle of the action, presupposing a history leading up to these events | In medias res |
| Treatment of an inanimate object as if it had human emotions (especially with the weather) | Pathetic fallacy |
| Emotional appeal | Pathos |
| Flasforward | Prolepsis |
| Where the shortcomings of people or a society are held up to ridicule (using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule) | Satire |
| The narrative mode that attempts to capture a subject's internal thought process | Steam of consciousmess |
| Imitation | Mimesis |
| Emotional purging: that experience of horror or pleasure gained through literature | Catharsis |
| The 'fall' in drama, often the tragic descent of the character or their fortunes | Peripeteia |
| Self-knowledge: the realization of the character as to their own issues or tragic flaw. (Related to epiphany) | Anagnorisis |
| Tragic flaw: a personal error in a protagonist’s personality that brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy. | Harmartia |
| Incongrunity between literal and implied meaning | Irony |
| When the reader has information the character does not | Dramatic irony |
| Placing two things close to one another | Juxtaposition |
| A work or character which imitates and mocks another | Parody |
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