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Commonly-missed Lit Terms!
They're the less-obvious ones.
15
Language - English
11th Grade
05/10/2011

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Term
Personification
Definition
The tired chair was sitting on the aching floor.
Term
Hyperbole
Definition
He's 900 years old!
Term
Litotes
Definition

1: You saved my life!

2: Oh, it was no big deal.

Term
Synecdoche
Definition

  • 9/11
  • A new set of wheels.
  • All hands on deck!
  • Do you have a ride?

Term
Metonymy
Definition

  • Lend me your ears!
  • You have a drinking problem. 
  • Frankenstein is totally my favorite monster. 

Term
Onomatopoea
Definition
[image]
Term
Alliteration
Definition

  • [image]

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Euphemism
Definition
And so he passed away.
Term
Allusion
Definition
The girl's love of Beanie Babies was her Achille's heel.
Term
Chiasmus
Definition
"I flee who chases me and chase who flees me!" - Ovid
Term
Juxtaposition
Definition
The police officer acts as a girly-man.
Term
Antithesis
Definition
  • I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time
Term
Asyndeton
Definition
I was thinking, breathing, being in love, thinking again, forgetting to breathe, forgetting to love, my senses overwhelming, the blood rushing through my tightened skin.
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Polysyndeton
Definition
Don't forget you books and your calculator and your pencils and medicine and inhaler and extra tissues and your protective underwear and don't forget to call me!
Term
Anaphora
Definition

  • "Here comes the shadow not looking where it is going,
    And the whole night will fall; it is time.
    Here comes the little wind which the hour
    Drags with it everywhere like an empty wagon through leaves.
    Here comes my ignorance shuffling after them
    Asking them what they are doing."

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