Poetic Terms Flashcards
(18 cards)
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of people, places, events, literary works, myths, or works of art either directly stated or by implication.
Allusion
A figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an object, concept, or person (usually absent) that is unable to respond.
Apostrophe
Creating long lists for poetic or rhetorical effect.
Catalog
The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work.
Imagery
The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development.
Juxtaposition
A form of meiosis using a negative statement.
Litotes
Understatement, the opposite of exaggeration
Meiosis
A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as.
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
Metonymy
The use of words to imitate sounds they describe.
Onomatopoeia
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level.
Paradox
When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure or length.
Parrallelism
The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities.
Personification
A figure of speech involving comparison between unlike things using like or as.
SImile
Frequent use of words, places, characters, or objects that mean something beyond what they are on a literal level.
Symbolism
A rhetorical trope involving shifts in imagery. It involves taking one type of sensory input (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) and commingling it with another separate sense in an impossible way.
Synaethesia
A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.
Synecdoche
