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| the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In some allegories, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. |
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| the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words (as in "she sells sea shells"). The repetition can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, and/or supply a musical sound |
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| a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
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| the multiple meanings, either intetnional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. |
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| a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. an anology can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its simliarity to something more familiar |
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| the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun |
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| a terse(short and conscise) statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. an aphorism can be a memorable summation fo the author's point |
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| a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. |
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| the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described. |
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| a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. an independent, or main, clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. a dependent or subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independednt clause |
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| the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing |
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| a fanciful expression, usaully in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimliar objects |
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| the nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; the implied suggested meaning. |
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| the strict, literal, dicionary defniniotn of a word, devoidd of any emotion, attitude, or color. |
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| related to style diction refers tot eh writer's word choices especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness |
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| didactic works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, espeically the taeching of moral or ethical principles |
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| from the greek for good speech, euphemisms are a more agreeable or less offensive sustitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept. |
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| a metaphor developed at great length, occuring frequently in or throught a work. |
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| writing or speech taht is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid. |
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| a device used to produce figurative language. many compare dissimilar things. figures of speech include, for example, apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simlie, synecdoche, and understatement. |
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| this term describes traditions for each genre |
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| the major category into which a literary work fits. the basic division of literature are porse, poetry, and drama. |
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