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Unit 1 Literary Terms
The repitition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
A reference to someone or something that is known form hitory, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or some other branch of culture.
A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
A technique by which a writer address an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either ded or absent.
An account of the writer's own life.
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pantameter.
An elaborate metaphor or other figure of speech that compares two things that are startlingly different.
The associates and emotional overtones that have bcome attacked to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
The repitition of the same or similar final consonant sounds on accented syllables or in important words.
Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.
A type of a figure of speech that is developed over several lines or with several examples.
figure of speech
A word or phrase that describes on thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be taken literally.
A line of poetry that contains five iambic feet.
The reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase.
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
The use of a worded whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
A statement that appears self-contradictory but that reveals a kind of truth.
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
A fourteenline poem, usually written in iabmic pentameter, with the frist eitht lines called the octave, asking a question or posing a problem. Final six lines respond to the question or problem.
A way of writing that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression.
A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attemmpt to bring about a change.
Six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnet.
A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole.
A personality failure in a character.
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