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| Question | Answer |
| Anaphora | Reference back to something that came earlier in a sentence |
| Cataphora | Reference forward to something that comes later in a sentence |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds |
| Collocation | Words that occur together so frequently that there are more or less predicatble |
| Connotation | Word association: Red = Anger Green = Envy Blue = Depression |
| Consonance | Repetition of consonants in the middle or end of words |
| Interior Monologue | The presentation of a character's thoughts in a narrative text, enabling the reader to understand the character more fully |
| Verbal Irony | Saying one thing but meaning the oppositte |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience know something the character does not |
| Irony of a situation | When an outcome of the reverse of what might normally be expected |
| Juxtaposition | the setting of things next to each other for literary effect |
| Metaphor | a comparison where the two things are identified completely: The blanket of fog descended. (An extended metaphor is where the poet continues to use and develop the image as the poem progresses.) |
| Metre | regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables used in poetry. The most famous is iambic pentameter or blank verse used frequently by Shakespeare. |
| Onomatopoeia | the sound of the word imitates the original object |
| Peripeteia | a turning point in the plot of a literary text; a reversal of fortune in the circumstances of a ‘hero’ or other character in a text |
| Sibilance | Consonant sounds characterized by hissing |
| Simile | A comparison using like or as |
| Soliloquy | Speech delivered by a character alone onstage talking to themselves |
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