front 1 Alliteration | back 1 The recurrence of initial consonant sounds |
front 2 Allusion | back 2 A short reference to a famous person or event; the best sources are literature, myth, the Bible, history |
front 3 Ambiguity | back 3 Ambiguity is the possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways |
front 4 Analogy | back 4 Compares two different things that have some similar characteristics |
front 5 Anaphora | back 5 A rhetorical device that repeats the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases and sentences |
front 6 Antithesis | back 6 Makes a connection between two things; __________ deliberately contrasts two opposing ideas in phrases or sentences |
front 7 Apostrophe | back 7 An __________ as a literary device is when a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party. This third party may be an individual, either present or absent in the scene. It can be an inanimate object, like a dagger, or an abstract concept, such as death or the sun. |
front 8 Appositive | back 8 Places a noun or phrase next to another noun for descriptive purposes |
front 9 Archetype | back 9 __________s are literary devices that employ the use of a famous concept, person, or object to convey a wealth of meaning |
front 10 Assonance | back 10 The successive use of different syllables with the same or similar vowel sounds |
front 11 Asyndeton | back 11 A lack of conjunctions between successive phrases or words |
front 12 Abstract | back 12 Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence; intellectual, mental, nonconcrete |
front 13 Ballad | back 13 A __________ is a type of poem that is sometimes set to music. __________s have a long history and are found in many culture. The __________ actually began as a folk song and continues today in popular music. Many love songs today can be considered __________s. |
front 14 Blank Verse | back 14 __________ is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter. In poetry and prose, it has a consistent meter with ten syllables in each line (pentameter); where, unstressed syllables are followed by stressed ones and five of which are stressed but do not rhyme. |
front 15 Cacophony | back 15 __________ points to a situation where there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds. In literature, however, the term refers to the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and un-melodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results. |
front 16 Caesura | back 16 The literary device involves creating fracture of sorts within a sentence within a sentence where the two separate parts are distinguishable from on another yet intrinsically linked to one another. |
front 17 Carpe Diem | back 17 Literally, the phrase is Latin for "seize the day," from carpere (to pluck, harvest, or grab) and the accusative form or die (day). The term refers to a common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most out of life and should enjoy it before it ends. |
front 18 Conceit | back 18 __________ develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative. A comparison turns into conceit when the writer tries to make us admit a similarity between two things of whose unlikeness we are strongly conscious and for this reason, __________s are often surprising |
front 19 Concrete | back 19 __________ words are objects that can be seen, felt, or tasted, heard, and/or smelt; they are words that can be proven by appealing to the five senses. |
front 20 Chiasmus | back 20 A figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words |
front 21 Clause | back 21 A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. An independent __________ expresses a complete thought; a dependent __________ must have an independent __________ attached to it. |
front 22 Connotation | back 22 The nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. __________s may involve ideas emotions, or attitudes. |
front 23 Consonance | back 23 __________ refers to the repetition of sounds in quick succession produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. The repetitive sound is often found at the end of a word. __________ is the opposite of assonance, which implies repetitive usage of vowel sounds. |
front 24 Couplet | back 24 A __________ is a literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought. It is marked by a usual rhythm, rhyme scheme, and incorporation of specific utterances. |