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what a word suggests beyond its basic definition
Connotation
The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word
Denotation
A word that receives the action of the verb
Direct Object
A word that gives tense to a verb
Helping Verb
A person, place, thing or idea
Noun
What are the 8 parts of speech
Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb, Conjunction, Preposition, Interjection, Pronoun
An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true
Paradox
a narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one
Allegory
the representation through language of sense experience
Imagery
a figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems
Simile
a figure of speech in which something closely related is used to represent the thing actually meant
Metonymy
a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole
synecdoche
when the words and actions of the characters of a work of literature have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters. This is the result of the reader having a greater knowledge than the characters themselves.
Dramatic Irony
bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed
Sarcasm
a figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants
Understatment
What receives the direct object
indirect object
a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply
apostrophe
a figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept
personification
a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth
Overstatment
a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said
verbal irony
a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history
Allusion
a figure of speech in which something means more than what it is.
Symbol
an occasion in which the outcome is significantly different from what was expected or considered appropriate.
Situational Irony
the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward his subject, his audience, or himself
Tone
a kind of literature that ridicules human folly or vice with the purpose of bringing about reform or of keeping others from falling into a similar folly or vice
Satire