Literary Terms
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- Literary Terms
- Alliteration
- Repetition of the same letter
- Allusion
- Personification
- Blank verse
- Written without rhyme scheme
- Climax
- At which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved
- Connotation
- Consonance
- Oxymoron
- Alliteration
- Referencing history or another text etc./
- Allusion
- Hyperbole
- Literary Terms
- Alliteration
- Repetition of the same letter
- Personification
- Blank verse
- Written without rhyme scheme
- Climax
- At which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved
- Connotation
- Consonance
- Oxymoron
- Alliteration
- Literary Terms
- Exaggeration
- Hyperbole
- Hyperbole
- Giving something human-like qualities
- Simile and metaphors
- used to compare two things
- Simile and metaphors
- Simile and metaphors
- Sibilance
- Repetition of 's' sound
- Sibilance
- Sibilance
- onomatopoeia
- the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
- onomatopoeia
- onomatopoeia
- Caesura
- Pause in a line of poetry
- Caesura
- Caesura
- Colloquial language
- informal/relaxed often used by the working class
- Flashback
- retrospective view - looking back
- Flashback
- Flashback
- Episodic
- long string of short individual scenes, stories or sections
- Episodic
- Episodic
- Non linear narrative
- Doesn't follow the traditional structure
- Foreshadowing
- Suggesting, hinting what will occur later in a narrative
- Stream of consciousness
- writing in which a character thoughts are presented
- Denouement
- unwinding the result to the audience
- Aposiopesis
- technique for showing a characters overcharged emotions
- technique for showing a characters overcharged emotions
- Epiphany
- revelation of such power and insight that it alters the entire world - view of the thinker who experiences it
- Imagery
- Vocabulary that creates a picture
- Imagery
- Imagery
- Assonance
- Repetition of vowels
- Juxtaposition
- opposing or similar ideas
- Aural Imagery
- images created through sound
- Aural Imagery
- Aural Imagery
- Dissonance
- Unpleasant sounds
- Anaphora
- Beginning with the same word
- Beginning with the same word
- Diction
- Vocabulary of a particular theme
- Diction
- Diction
- Pessimistic
- having a negative outlook
- Pessimistic
- Pessimistic
- Optimistic
- Having a positive oulook
- Optimistic
- Optimistic
- Pathos
- a quality that evokes pity or sadness
- Pathos
- Pathos
- Connotations are the associations people make with words that go being the literal or dictionary definition
- Repetition of consonants
- Euphemism
- form of a negative description instead of its original, unsympathetic form
- Euphemism
- Euphemism
- Irony
- playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning
- Irony
- Irony
- contrasting concepts placed together
- Catastrophe
- 'turning downward' of the plot, in a tragedy
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