Definition
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
Imagery
What is Simile?
Anything about comparing one thing to another.
"As I was running the branch reached out and grabbed me by the ankle."
Personification
Small is the ____ to large.
Antithesis
What is Juxtaposition?
Anything about two things being placed togther with contrasting effects.
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
What is Hyperbole?
Anything about exaggerating.
The term "shank" in the book “Maze Runner".
Colloquialism
The color red typically has a bad or evil _____.
Connotation
A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Analogy
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Parody
What is Syntax?
Anything that has to do with arranging words to be well-formed
A northerner may say “you guys” in a situation where a southerner would say “y’all”.
Diction
Simply calling Albert Einstein smart is somewhat of an ____.
Understatement
They say that they're cold.
Indirect Narration
A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition may prove to be well-founded or true when investigated or explained.
Paradox
What is Allegory?
Anything about how a story can have an underlying meaning.
The use of the term “logotherapy” in “A man’s Search For Meaning”.
Motif
The three types of narration are ___, ___, ___.
indirect, free indirect, and direct.
A parody of a song compared to the actual version of a song.
Pastiche
A form of irony that is expressed through a work's structure: an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters.
Dramatic Irony
What is Situational Irony?
Anything about how actions or events have an opposite result from what was expected.
The word “fat”.
Denotation
The three types of irony are ___, ___, ___
Dramatic, verbal, situational
An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is developed using ____ detail.
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