occurs when a poet or author represents something through sight
What is visual imagery?
100
Plain language of everyday use, including slang, jargon, vulgarity, and dialect. Monosyllabic.
What is low, formal diction?
100
two successive lines of rhyming verse, often of the same meter
What is couplet?
100
the repetition of final consonant sounds or sounds following different vowel sounds in proximate words. EX. Made and Wood
What is consonance?
100
A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal
formula, which appears frequently in works of literature.
What is a motif?
200
occurs when something is represented through sound
What is auditory imagery?
200
Dignified, elevated, and perhaps impersonal. Elaborate, or
sophisticated vocabulary.
What is high/formal diction?
200
the attitude of the author toward the reader or the subject matter of a literary work
What is tone?
200
the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
200
A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level.
poetic expression that spans more than one line; does not end with grammatical breaks, and is not complete without the following lines.
What is enjambment?
300
a contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality.
What is irony?
300
Author shows the audience what the character is like through description.
What is indirect characterization?
400
image is the representation of a taste
What is gustatory imagery?
400
Unadorned Plain Detached Simple, etc..
What is middle/neutral style?
400
repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, followed by different consonant sounds. EX. Fate and Cave (note—not perfect rhyme!)
What is assonance?
400
a statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface, but upon closer examination, contains an underlying truth.
What is a paradox?
400
(I, me, my, we, us, our) are used to tell the story.
What is first person POV?
500
is the representation of touch
What is tactile imagery?
500
What you never use while writing about diction
What is say only the word "diction?"
500
figure of speech in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or otherwise not physically present, an imaginary person or entity, something inhuman.
What is apostrophe?
500
arrangement of words within a phrase, clause, or sentence. (Complexity vs. simplicity)
What is syntax?
500
the author can enter the minds of all the characters.