O-P Flashcards
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing and mean a mother.
Two silk worms had a race; they ended up in a tie.
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Pun
A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings.
Pun
Sentence which uses “and” or another conjunction, with no commas, to separate the items in a series, usually appearing in the form X and Y and Z, stressing equally each member of the series. It makes the sentence slower and the items more emphatic than in the asyndeton.
Polysyndeton
“When I got up to go I found I had taken off my shoes. I hunted for them and found them and carried them down-stairs. I found my room and went inside and undressed and got into bed.” (Hemingway 199)
Polysyndeton
The perspective from which a fictional or nonfictional story is told.
Point of View
Point of View:
“When I got up to go I found I had taken off my shoes. I hunted for them and found them and carried them down-stairs. I found my room and went inside and undressed and got into bed.” (Hemingway 199)
First Person
Point of View:
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”
Third Person Limited
When non-human things (animals, objects, etc.) are given human qualities.
Personification
A seemingly contradictory statement or situation which is actually true. This rhetorical device is often used for emphasis or simply to attract attention.
Paradox
Gregor “closing his eyes” to avoid seeing his wriggling legs – no literal eyelids, but he blinds himself to the reality of his situation.
Paradox
The use of a word whose pronunciation suggests its meaning.
Onomatopoeia
POW!
KNOCK!
THUMP!
SNICKER-SNACK!
Onomatopoeia
A rhetorical antithesis. Juxtaposing two contradictory terms, like “wise fool” or “deafening silence”
Oxymoron
jumbo shrimp
old news
alone together
“O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!“ (Romeo and Juliet)
Oxymoron
