Symbolism and Figurative language

Question 1

• thing or idea represented
• concrete, particular > abstract, general
• sometimes arbitrary, culturally specific
  EX) snakes, apple tree

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Symbol

Question 2

Literary Symbolism is…
Rarely…, H…,Layers of…, Varied…,

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• a simple question
• Hinted at
• meanings
• interpretations

Question 3

• cross-cultural

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Archetypes

Question 4

• Especially religious
• Symbol keeps coming up in the story
• Clear, intended meaning
• Moral

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Allegory

Question 5

• rule of conduct or maxim for living (a statement about how one should live or behave)

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Moral

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• When the entire story is allegorical or symbolic
• Religious (creation myth, explanatory myth)
• Universal experiences of truths (mythic)

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Myth

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Art and scholarly study of effective communication, whether in writing or speech.

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Rhetoric

Question 8

• metaphor, overstatement
• the word or phrase creates a “figure” in reader’s mind by obvious change of the usage of the word.

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Figure of speech / trope

Question 9

A representation of one thing as if it were something else, without a verbal signal such as like or as.

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Metaphor

Question 10

A combination of contradictory or opposite ideas, qualities, or entities
(EX) Voiceless cry, wise fool or jumbo shrimp

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Oxymoron

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The name of one thing is used to refer to another associated thing.
(EX) white house, pentagon

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Metonymy

Question 12

Focal point in story, a single object or situation that draws the attention of one or more characters
(EX) I don’t have wheels = I don’t have a car.

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Interpretation

Question 13

indirect reference within a literary text to something outside the text

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allusion

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a meaning or outcome contrary to what is expected

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irony

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a speaker or narrator says one thing but means the reverse

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Verbal irony

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intended meaning is harshly critical or mocking

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Sarcasm

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a character holds a position or has an expectation that is reversed or fulfilled in an unexpected way

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Situational irony

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when there is instead a gap between what an audience knows and what a character believes or expects

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Dramatic irony

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dramatic irony in tragedy

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tragic irony

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situational irony is the result of fate, chance, the gods, or other supernatural power

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Cosmic irony/ irony of fate

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figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared implicitly (use word “like” or “as” as connections)

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Metaphor

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figure of speech in which the name of one thing is used to refer to another associated thing

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Metonymy

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figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements

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Oxymoron

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figure of speech that involves treating something nonhuman

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Personification

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a figure of speech involving a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually use “like” as connections

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Simile

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type of metonymy in which the part is used to name or stand in for the whole (like use wheels to mean a car)

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Synecdoche

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any word or phrase that creates a ‘figure’ in mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning or order of words

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Figure of speech

Question 28

language that uses figures of speech

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Figurative language

Question 29

visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

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Imagery