Literary Devices Flashcards
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What is a Metaphor?
Compares two different things without using like or as
What is a simile?
Compares two different things using like or as
What is personification?
Where non human things like objects or animals are described as having human qualities or characteristics
What is an apostrophe?
Where a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn’t present or can’t respond
What is a pathetic fallacy?
 The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals 
What is an oxymoron?
A figure of speech that combines contradictory terms or ideas creating a seemingly paradoxical effect 
What is a paradox?
A statement or situation that despite appearing self contract or absurd, may in fact, be true or contain underlying truth
What is a hyperbole?
A simple exaggeration used for emphasis or effect
What is an understatement?
By which a particular quality of a person object, emotion or situation is downplay or presented as being less than what is true to the situation
What is an alliteration?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound in the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
What is a consonance?
Agreement or compatibility to between opinions or actions 
What is an assonance?
The repetition of the sound of a vowel in non-rhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible
What is a rhyme?
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when they are used at the end of lines poet poetry
What is a rhyming couplet?
Two lines that rhyme 
What is an onomatopoeia?
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what it is named
What is verbal irony?
When you say something different than what you mean
What is dramatic irony?
The audience or readers under understanding of events or individuals in a work surpass that of its characters
What is situational irony?
A literary device were an event contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader or the audience
