Metalanguage Flashcards

(40 cards)

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Imagery that evokes sight

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Visual

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Imagery that evokes taste

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Gustatory

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3
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Imagery that evokes smell

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Olfactory

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4
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Imagery that evokes touch

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Tactile

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5
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Imagery that evokes bodily sensations

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Viceral

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6
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Imagery that evokes sound

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Aural

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7
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Imagery that evokes movement

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Kinaesthetic

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8
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Comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

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Simile

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9
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The direct comparison of two unlike things

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Metaphor

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10
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Exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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11
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Attributing humanlike qualities to non-human things

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Personification

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12
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Attributing animalistic characteristics to humans

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Zoomorphism

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13
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Using a part to represent a whole (nice wheels = nice car)

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Synectoche

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14
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Using a related term to represent something ( The crown = the queen)

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Metonym

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15
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A common figurative expression (break a leg)

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Idiom

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16
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Where sound maches meaning

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Onomatopoeia

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17
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Two matching vowel sounds within a line

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Internal rhyme

18
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Two matching vowel sounds at the end of a line

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Repeated consonant sound at the start of words near one another

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Repeated consonant sounds near one another

21
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Use of words with discordant, sharp or jarring sounds

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Use of words with pleasing sounds

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Repeated “s” sound in words near one another

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The rhythmic structure of a poem

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The word describing the voice of the poem (the person speaking)
Speaker
26
The word describing the arrangement or length of lines in a poem
Lineation
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A "paragraph" in a poem
Stanza
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The continuation of a phrase over a line break in a poem
Enjambment
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A line in a poem that comes to a natural rest at the end
End stopped line
30
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry
Caesura
31
Short, sharp sentences
Abrupt syntax
32
Long, clause-heavy sentence
Elaborate syntax
33
Grammatically incomplete sentences
Sentence fragments
34
A reference in a text to another text, person or event
Alusion
35
The deliberate overuse of conjunctions like "and" in a sentence
Polysyndeton
36
The deliberate lack of conjunctions in a sentence
Asyndeton
37
An object or place that has a deeper, emblematic meaning
Symbolism
38
Placing two things side by side for comparison
Juxtaposition
39
The attitude of the text or a speaker within it
Tone
40
The style and formality of the language employed
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