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Alliteration*. Figurative Language. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Example: The wonderful walrus, Wally, waded in the water. NEED TO KNOW FOR FINAL. Allusion. Figurative Language.
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Alliteration* Figurative Language • The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. • Example: The wonderful walrus, Wally, waded in the water. NEED TO KNOW FOR FINAL
Allusion Figurative Language • A reference to a well-known person, place, event, artwork, literary work, or musical piece Example: • He’s was the Michael Jordan of the Puma Basketball Team. • Math class was his Achilles’ heel.
Apostrophe* Literary Element • The rhetorical addressing of an absent person as if present (or of an abstract idea or object) • Example: • “O grave, where is thy victory?”
Assonance* Figurative Language • The repetition of vowel sounds without repetition of consonants • Example: • The story was boring. (the long o sound) NEED TO KNOW FOR FINAL
Aside Dramatic Element • A brief remark made by a character on stage to the audience, uttered while other characters are nearby but unable to hear. • From Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, Juliet asks the nurse to find out Romeo’s name: Go ask his name [If he be married My grave is like to be my wedding bed.] I,v, 135-138
Free or Blank Verse* Poetic Device • Poetry (verse) without rhyme or rhythm • Example: • Dogs are cute I like cats too Fish are fun and so are friends
Imagery Figurative Language • Descriptive words or phrases that recreate a visual explanation or sensory images for the reader • Example: • The cries seemed to come from the watery grave.
Irony Literary Element • A contrast what is stated and what is expected • Example: • Alanis Morrisette’s song, “Isn’t It Ironic” it’s like rain on your wedding day
Metaphor Figurative Language • A direct comparison between two objects, ideas, or “things” • Example: • The girl was a breath of fresh air.
Meter* Poetic Device • A pattern of stresses, or beats, in a line. • Example: • I wandered lonely as a cloud
Monologue* Dramatic Element • A long, uninterrupted speech that a character speaks in front of other characters. From Romeo & Juliet, Mercutio’s “Queen Mab” speech in Act I, sc. iv is an example. • It’s intended for other characters-not the audience.
Onomatopoeia* Figurative Language • The formation of words in imitation of natural sounds. • Example: • The bees buzz in the room. NEED TO KNOW FOR FINAL
Personification Figurative Language • Giving nonhuman objects human-like qualities • Example • (The Giving Tree) “The tree loved the boy.” • The cat laughed at the silly dog.
Repetition Figurative Language • A reoccurring phrase or verse especially at the end of each stanza of a poem or song. • Example: Oh, the wheels on the bus Go round and round Round and round Round and round NEED TO KNOW FOR FINAL
Reversed Word/ Sentence Construction* Figurative Language • A compound word or phrasing in reversed order. • Example • upfill • “and from her womb children of divers kind / we sucking on her natural bosom find.”
Forced Rhyme Poetic Device • An rhyme that is “close,” but not truly rhyming. • Shakespeare is famous for this. • Example: Now Romeo is beloved and loves again But to his foe supposed he must complain
Internal Rhyme Poetic Device • Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse • Example: • “the grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother”
Rhyme Poetic Device • Similar or identical end sounds of two or more words • Example: • June and Moon • Time, climb • Read, speed
Rhyme Scheme Poetic Device • The arrangement of rhymes at the end of each line- in a stanza or a poem • Example: • Roses are red A • Violets are blue B • Sugar is Sweet C • So are you B
Simile Figurative Language • A direct comparison between two things using “like” or “as” • Example: • The girl was like a breath of fresh air.
Stanza* Poetic Device • A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. • Example – Oh, the wheels on the bus Go round and round Stanza 1 Round and round Round and round Oh, the wheels on the bus Go round and round Stanza 2 All through the town!
Soliloquy Dramatic Element • a speech given by a character when he is alone. Like an aside, this is intended only for the audience to hear. Unlike the aside, when a soliloquy is spoken, there are no other characters on stage. • In Romeo & Juliet, Act II, iii, Friar Laurence is alone and speaks his thoughts so the audience can hear them.
Sonnet* Poetic Device • A type of poem popular in Shakespeare’s time, it consists of 14 lines and maintains an abab, cdcd, efef, gg rhyme scheme.
Symbol* Figurative Language • One thing that represents something else. • Example: • Sunset….representing old age • My grandmother is in the sunset of her life. • Colors – • Flags-
Theme* Literary Element • The central idea in a poem • Example: • In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”…. • Theme: • His lost love will be around, “nevermore.”
Tone* Literary Element • A feeling the author or speaker is trying to convey to the reader. • Example: • Angry, happy, depressed, comedic
Hyperbole Figurative Language • An extravagant exaggeration • Example: We’ve told you a million times to come to class on time!
Oxymoron • A figure of speech that combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox.
Foreshadowing • Technique of arranging events and information in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for or shadowed forth beforehand. This gives structural and thematic unity.
Pun • An expression that achieves emphasis or humor by contriving an ambiguity, two distinct meanings being suggested either by the same word or by two similar sounding words
Dramatic Irony • Irony in which the audience knows more about a character's situation than the character does, foreseeing an outcome contrary to the character's expectations, and thus ascribing a sharply different sense to some of the character's own statements
Foil • A character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist (or of some other character) by providing a strong contrast with them
Paradox • A statement or expression so surprisingly self-contradictory as to provoke us into seeking another sense or context in which it would be true