Analogy
a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
Submereged metaphor
A submerged metaphor is a type of metaphor (or figurative comparison) in which one of the terms (either the vehicle or the tenor) is implied rather than stated explicitly.
Extended metaphor
The term “extended metaphor” refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence, and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.
Metonymy
a type of metaphor in which an object is used to describe something that’s closely related to it. So, for example, when you’re talking about the power of a king, you might say “the crown,” instead
ASSOCIATION NOT SIMILARITY
Synechdoche
Synecdoche is a literary device in which a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part. Synecdoche may also use larger groups to refer to smaller groups, or vice versa.
“every thing should be the way it was.”
class instead of students
one for the whole
Imperative
orders
regionalism
“you rotter” ocal color or regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region
Chiasmus
a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’.
grooming the mount mounting the groom
Anaphora
the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.
HENRY. Actually, I was talking about my play.
CHARLOTTE. Actually, so was I. (20)
iteration
defined as the act or process of repeating. For example, iteration can include repetition of a sequence of operations in order to get ever closer to a desired result.
Henry? Henry? No answer. Are you there, Henry? Say something witty. (23)
epistrophe
the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
I. MAX. Is it anyone Iknow
CHARLOTTE. You aren’t anyone I know.
Non sequitur
a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
The Japs [sic] could show them [the Swiss] a thing or two. They d have a whaling fleet in Lake
Geneva by now. How’s the skiing, by the way?
epanorthosis
An epanorthosis is a figure of speech that signifies emphatic word replacement. “Thousands, no, millions!” is a stock example
aporia
an irresolvable internal contradiction or logical disjunction in a text, argument, or theory.
no, i mean it shows-never mind ive lost it now
asyndeton
the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.
HENRY. I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness.
meiosis
meiosis describes the use of understatement to highlight a point, or explain a situation, or to understate a response used to enhance the effect of a dramatic moment
’s only a couple of marriages and a child. All right?
poetic inversion
Inversion. Inversion is a term used to refer to the inverting of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. Writers will use inversion to maintain a particular meter or rhyme scheme in poetry, or to emphasize a specific word in prose.
Such a pair of stars I As ar~yes would, like Promethean fire,/ If gent glanced, give life to
senseless stones. (69)
allusion
dr making reference to shakespeare
Dramatic irony
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows a key piece of information that a character in a play, movie or novel does not. This is the type of irony that makes us yell, “DON’T GO IN THERE!!” during a scary movie. Dramatic irony is huge in Shakespeare’s tragedies, most famously in Othello and Romeo and Juliet, both of which we’ll examine later.
verbal irony
Verbal irony occurs when a speaker’s intention is the opposite of what he or she is saying. For example, a character stepping out into a hurricane and saying, “What nice weather we’re having!”
situational irony
ccurs when the actual result of a situation is totally different from what you’d expect the result to be. Sitcoms often use situational irony. For example, a family spends a lot of time and money planning an elaborate surprise birthday party for their mother to show her how much they care. But it turns out, her birthday is next month, and none of them knew the correct date. She ends up fuming that no one cares enough to remember her birthday.
post structuralism
meaning is slippery bc language is made up of signs so its interperative
post(de)-colonisation
new poltical realities challenge conventional ways of thinking
both this and structuralism make up post modern “mise en abime”
meta dramatic
play within play
