Lit terms review 1

Repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words

• Alliteration

• Synechdoche

• Rhyme

• AAAA Format

Statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Parallelism

• Simile

Saying less than one means, for effect

• Tone

• Synechdoche

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

Writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly

• Persona

• Personification

• Irony

• Tone

Defn: placing two things side by side in order to compare or contrast them

• blank verse

• alliteration

• assonance

• juxtaposition

Defn: the arrangement of words and phrases within a sentence or paragraph

• blank verse

• syntax

• catharsis

• diction

Defn: a writer's or speaker's choice of words

• syntax

• juxtaposition

• metaphor

• diction

Defn: language that appeals to the senses

• juxtaposition

• imagery

• metaphor

• alliteration

Ex. The child's dreams were dashed on the rocks long before could escape.

• alliteration

• catharsis

• metaphor

• apostrophe

What is the definition of PERSONIFICATION?

• Giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form
• A figure of speech that compares unlike objects
• A figurative comparison using the words "like" or "as"
• The repetition of one or more initial consonant in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. writers use this for ornament or for emphasis