Definitions
Comparing two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
Repetition (consonance)
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
Metaphor
How did Mary Shelley's husband die?
Drowning
Giving a non-living thing human characteristics
Personification
A pair of rhymed lines in a poem
Couplet
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Couplet
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being
Apostrophe
Name at least 4 differences between the Frankenstein book and movie.
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An elaborate, extended metaphor that compares completely unrelated things
Conceit
Making a reference to something- another book, a character, an event
Allusion
At the end of the book about characters struggling against an evil, corrupt leader, a sudden earthquake happens and he dies, solving all their problems.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban...
Anaphora
Decide if this thesis got the point on the AP exam and why (or why not): “Characters often make mistakes in literature. Victor Frankenstein allows himself to get swept up in misguided ideas."
A long speech a character gives alone on the stage
Soliloquy
A poem of mourning
Elegy
Drums in "Things Fall Apart"
Motif
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain
Enjambment
What is the meaning of the word "countenance"?
A face or expression
Using a part of something to refer to all of it
Synechdoche
The use of closely associated word or concept to substitute another
Metonymy
Henry Clerval and Victor Frankenstein, Okonkwo and Nwoye, Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter
Character Foils
Then while we live, in love let's so persever
That when we live no more, we may live ever.
Paradox
Tell me 5 facts you know about Charlotte.
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