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Recursos Literarios
Spanish Literary Terms
43
Language - Spanish
12th Grade
05/01/2008

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Hiperbaton
Definition
Change of the order of the words in a sentance
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Asindeton
Definition
Omission of the connection, expecially of the conjuction "y"
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Polisindeton
Definition
Extensive use of conjunctions
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Gradacion
Definition
Chained together phrases used to intensify or weaken a succession of events.
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Zeugma
Definition

A figure of omission, by which one repetition is omitted from a phrase

 

e.g la vi marchar, pero no (la vi) volver.

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Elipsis
Definition
Omission of words, without which the meaning of the phrase is clear
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Epifonema
Definition
Frase at the end of a passage that summarizes what's been said. Also can be at the beginning
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Silepsis
Definition
Disagreement (of gender, person, time, or numbeR) between the wods in a frase or sentance
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Antitesis
Definition
Contrast or opposition between concepts
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Osimoron
Definition
Intesnse direct self contrast
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Pardoja
Definition
Use of seemingly contradictory ideas
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Ironia
Definition
the irony leads to understanding the opposite of that said
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Quiasmo
Definition
words, meanings crossed
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Retruecano
Definition
Inversion of the terms of a phrase in another following so that the meaning of this last form contrasts
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Eufemismo
Definition
circuitous phrasing to aboid the disagreeable
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Hiperbole
Definition
Exaggeration of something
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Alegoria
Definition
Extended metaphor,
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Apostrophe
Definition
Interruption of the speach to add emphasis.
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Calambur
Definition

A change in meaning of two words when puting their sounds together.

 

e.g. (las tupidas=la estupida) 

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Equivoco o dilogia
Definition
Double Meaning
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Metafora
Definition
Metaphor
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Prosopopeya
Definition
Personification
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alegori'a
Definition
Artistic, didactic, and can or not have symbolic significance
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El simbolo
Definition
Representation of an unexplainable meaning
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El Mito
Definition
narrates a sacred story, relates a happening that ocurrs in ancient times
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Sinalefa
Definition
Joining of sillables between distinct words
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Hiato
Definition
Not joining distinct words
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Dieresis
Definition

Pronouncing consecutive vowels seperately

e.g. cooperate 

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sineresis
Definition
procnunciation of two or more vowels like only one within the same word
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endecasilabo
Definition
11 sillables
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Rima consanante
Definition
The same end sounds from the last vowel
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Rima assonante
Definition
repetition of vowel sounds for internal rhyming
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Aliteracion
Definition
Alliteration
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Onomatopeya
Definition
Imitation of a sound through consonants and vowels
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Anafora
Definition
repetition of words or of ideas
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Epifora
Definition
repetition of words at the end of a phrase
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Estribillo
Definition
reptition of a complete verse or more than one. Incomplete repetition can also be considered.
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Paralelismo
Definition
Symmetry in the repetition of words or ideas.
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Enumeracion
Definition
Use of a list
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Sinestesia
Definition
Mixing up senses
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Perifrasis
Definition
referring to someone by a description
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Epiteto
Definition
pointing out the obvious (white snow)
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Hipalage
Definition
Turning an adjective into a  noun
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