Analogies and Representation
Two essentially dissimilar objects or concepts are expressly compared with one another through the use of “like” or “as.”
What is Simile?
A literary and rhetorical device that can be described as a statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing reason or logic
What is Logos?
A literary device that reflects repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds; does not refer to the repetition of consonant letters that begin words, but rather the repetition of the consonant sound at the beginning of words
The literal meaning/dictionary definition of a word
What is Denotation?
A literary device to indicate the angle or perspective from which a story is told
What is Point-of-View?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two non-similar things without using "like" or "as"
What is Metaphor?
A literary device that is designed to inspire emotions from readers. Pathos, Greek for “suffering” or “experience,” originated as a conceptual mode of persuasion by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle
What is Pathos?
A literary device in which a line of poetry carries its idea or thought over to the next line without a grammatical pause
What is Enjambment?
A literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader
What is Imagery?
A literary device designed to illustrate or reveal information, traits, values, or motivations of one character through the comparison and contrast of another character
What is Character Foil(s)?
When something stands for and/or suggests something else, usually a theme or abstract idea
What is Symbolism?
A rhetorical device representing credibility and appealing to ethics/ethicality
What is Ethos?
A beat or foot that uses 10 syllables in each line compromising of a pattern of unstressed, stressed syllables (used in Shakespearean sonnets)
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly; words carry cultural and emotional associations or meanings, in addition to their literal meanings
What is Connotation?
A technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell, and touch at a given time (also a medical term/condition)
What is Synesthesia?
A narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas
What is Allegory?
Asked just for effect, or to lay emphasis on some point being discussed when no real answer is expected
What is Rhetorical Question(s)?
A rhythmical pause in a poetic line or a sentence. It often occurs in the middle of a line, or sometimes at the beginning and the end. At times, it occurs with punctuation; at other times it does not.
What is Caesura?
A figure of speech and literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration
What is Hyperbole?
Narrating a story from the middle after supposing that the audiences are aware of past events
What is In Media Res?
A poetic phrase or speech made by a character that is addressed to a subject that is not literally present in the literary work. The subject may be dead, absent, an inanimate object, or even an abstract idea.
What is Apostrophe?
A literary device that reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter or audience of a literary work
What is Tone?
A literary device where strongly stressed consonants are created deliberately by producing air from vocal tracts through the use of lips and tongue. Such consonants produce hissing sounds (ie: Susanna saw seashell scraps scattered on sand)
What is Sibilance?
A situation in which the reader is aware of something in the story that the character(s) is/are not aware of (be specific in your answer...)
What is Dramatic Irony?
A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar
What is Allusion?