Flashcards
English Lit Terms
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- 1AcronymA word formed from initial letters in phrase, e.g. AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- 2AdjectiveA word to modify a noun or pronoun, usually a descriptive meaning, e.g. shiny or scary
- 3AdverbsWords that modify verbs, clauses, sentences and adjectives, e.g. quickly and fortunately
- 4AllegoryUsed as literary devices or rhetorical, that convey hidden meanings through symbolic figures, actions and imagery which create a moral, spiritual or political meaning
- 5AlliterationThe use of repeated consonants in neighbouring words, e.g. wonderful wilderness
- 6Auditory ImageryMakes the reader have a sense of imagery through noise, music or other sounds
- 7ClauseIs a word construction containing a nominative and predicate, e.g. a subject doing verb
- 8ClicheA word or phrase that once had originality but has now become exhausted through overuse, e.g. it felt like someone has stepped over my grave
- 9ColloquialismIs the use of informal words, phrases or slang in writing, e.g. y'all or go nuts
- 10ConnotationAn indirect implication or suggestion from a word, beyond literal meaning
- 11DenotationThe direct or explicit meaning of word or string of words
- 12DialogueThe speech between two or more characters in any type of text
- 13DidacticWriting that aims to instruct, or even preach, moral message
- 14End-stopThe line ending in full pause such as full stop or semicolon, highlight a rhyme or point
- 15EnjambmentA line in poetry which does not end punctuation or a pause
- 16IntertextualityReferring to a other text
- 17JuxtapositionTwo or more ideas that contrast against each other
- 18MetaphorA comparison between two things not usually compared, e.g. The ladder of success
- 19NarratorThe voice that speaks or tells a story
- 20Noun - Concrete, Abstract or ProperConcrete - a object that you can touch.
Abstract - Feelings or something you can touch
Proper - names of places and people - 21OxymoronThe use of contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a a deeper level, e.g. without laws we can have no freedom
- 22Pathetic FallacyA device that gets human emotions across with weather or nature
- 23PersonificationWhen abstractions animals, ideas and objects are given human traits
- 24PronounA linguistic term for a word which substitutes for a noun such as 'you' or 'she' or 'it'
- 25SimileA comparison of two things not usually paired and made by using the adverbs like or as
- 26SibilanceAlliteration with 's' the snake slithered soundlessly
- 27VerbA verb 'does' the subject action in a sentence, e.g. ate or walked