E1 Lit Terms

Alliteration is

• the repetition of vowel sounds within non rhyming words.

• When an author uses one comparison for effect, and continues to use it throughout the section or work.

• the repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of a word.

• a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

Allusion is

• A worn-out idea or overused expression

• the occurrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words, such as suite, heat, and complete.

• a strong, regular repeated pattern or sound.

• An indirect reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.

Assonance is

• the repetition of vowel sounds within non rhyming words.

• a lesson taught in a literary work, such as a fable.

• the use of a word whose sounds echo their meanings such as buzz, whisper, gargle, and murmur.

• a person, a place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself.

Cliche is

• a special kind of concise paradox that brings together two contradictory terms.

• an attitude or a feeling associated with a word

• A worn-out idea or overused expression

• a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as.

Connotation is

• A worn-out idea or overused expression

• an attitude or a feeling associated with a word

• the words and phrases surrounding the word that provides hints about the word's meaning.

• a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

Consonance is

• repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words.

• the words and phrases surrounding the word that provides hints about the word's meaning.

• the first stage of a plot in a typical story.

• When an author uses one comparison for effect, and continues to use it throughout the section or work.

Context Clues are

• refers to all forms of written or spoken expression that are not in verse.

• A figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea

• a seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may suggest an important truth.

• the words and phrases surrounding the word that provides hints about the word's meaning.

Exposition

• When an author uses one comparison for effect, and continues to use it throughout the section or work.

• the first stage of a plot in a typical story.

• the words and phrases surrounding the word that provides hints about the word's meaning.

• An imitation of another work, a type of literature, or a writer’s style, usually for the purpose of poking fun

Extended Metaphor is

• A story within a story

• a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.

• a common figure of speech whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of its words.

• When an author uses one comparison for effect, and continues to use it throughout the section or work.

Figurative Language is

• language that communicates meanings beyond the literal meanings of words.

• a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

• A warning or indication of a future event that helps create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

• a logical assumption that is based on observed facts and one's knowledge and experience.