Winter English Literary Terms

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alliteration

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The repition of stressed, initial sounds of words. these repeated sounds are usually made my consonants. EXample' whirring as wound wires whir"

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allusion

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a reefernce to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.

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Hyberbole

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an exaggeration used to create humor, to emphasize particular points, and to create dramatic effects.

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image

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a word or phrase or use of words used to bring a picture to the reader's mind or evoke one of more of the five senses.

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Imagery

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is the use of words used to bring a picture ot the readers's mind or evoke one or more of the senses.

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Irony

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IN poetry, irony is an implied discrepancey between what is said and what is meant.

EX. a fine thing indeed! He muttered to himself.

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metaphor

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the comparision of two unlike things or ideas, without usinge "like" or "as". IN a metaphor, a subject is spoken or wirtten about as though it were something else. Ex"" you are sunshine"

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simile

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a figure of speech that makes a direct comparision between two unlike subjects using "like" or "As"

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meter

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the meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. it is the measuremetn and pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of verse.

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onomatopoeia

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use of words whose sound suggests the sense of the words, or natural sound of the words.

EX: slittering hissing snakes of slytherin

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Persona

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a character in a dramatic or literary work, the role that a person assumes in order to display his/her conscious intentions to himself/herself or others.

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Prose

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THe ordinary form of written language. MOst writing that is not poetry, drama, or song is considered prose.

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Rhyme

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a pattern of words that contains similar sounds (Such as known/though/snow.

A rhyme scheme explains the pattern of the endo rhymes in a poem (such as ababcc cdcdee)

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Stanza

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A unified group of lines in a poem. A stanza is separted from other lines by a space, called a stanza break.

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Couplet

tercet

quatrain

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couplet: a two line stanza

Tercet: a three line stanza

QUatrain: A Four line STanza