1BR - Literary Vocabulary Set 2

something subtle; a fine shade of meaning

• subtlety

• nuance

• oxymoron

• symbol

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear with each other

• pun

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• subtlety

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings

• oxymoron

• pun

• assonance

• alliteration

exaggerated praise

• superlative

• symbol

• pun

• nuance

the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

• subtlety

• nuance

• superlative

• symbol

A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

• symbol

• superlative

• nuance

• end rhyme

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• alliteration

• assonance

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

• alliteration

• assonance

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• alliteration

• assonance

A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

• end rhyme

• internal rhyme

• alliteration

• assonance