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Flashcards by Claire Collins, updated more than 1 year ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Pun | The use of words to exploit double-meanings for humorous effects |
| Rhetorical question | A figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer. |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to something |
| Tone | An indicator of attitude, emotion or thoughts |
| Dramatic irony | In drama, the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of |
| Oxymoron | Figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory ideas |
| Cliché | Expression or idea that is no longer effective because of overuse |
| Schema/ schematic knowledge | These are the mental structures we use to organise and simplify our knowledge of the world around us. We use our schematic knowledge to infer meaning from texts. |
| Allusion | Brief references to a well-known figures or events, often (in English) from literature, history, Greek myth, or the Bible |
| Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration for effect |
| Imagery | Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience |
| Irony | When a statement is apparently straight forward but there are undercurrents that offer a different significance |
| Paradox | Person or thing made up of contradictory elements |
| Metaphor | A linguistic device where the writer describes a thing or person as if it actually were something else, e.g. “My tongue was flame / And my kisses burned.” (Carol Ann Duffy) |
| Pathetic Fallacy | When the weather or natural world reflect the mood of the writing |
| Simile | A linguistic device where one person / thing is compared with another using ‘like’ or ‘as’ (e.g. She sang like a bird. He was as pale as a sheet.) |
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