English literary terms
The harder ones (y'all prolly knew "Alliteration" and stuff already)
PS. The stuff in parentheses makes testing rlly awkward. Sorry.
PS. The stuff in parentheses makes testing rlly awkward. Sorry.
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- Allusion (EXAMPLE)
- "The girl's love of sweets was her Achilles heel" (______ to Achilles)
- Oxymoron (EXAMPLE)
- "Jumbo shrimp"
- Idiom (EXAMPLE)
- "Has the cat got your tongue?"
- Allegory
- A story with two meanings: a literal and a symbolic.
- Voice (EXAMPLE)
- "Jeff was tackled by Billy" (example of passive _______)
- Euphemism
- The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt
- Oxymoron
- A rhetorical figure in which contradictory terms are combined
- Satire
- Usually a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule
- Paradox (DEFINITION 1)
- A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true
- Paradox (EXAMPLE 1)
- "Standing is more tiring than walking"
- Paradox (DEFINITON 2)
- A statement that truly is contradictory and yet follows logically from other statements that do not seem open to objection
- Euphemism (EXAMPLE)
- "To pass away" taking the place of "to die."
- Idiom
- A combination of words with a special meaning that cannot be inferred from the separate parts
- Oxymoron (EXAMPLE)
- "Defeaning silence"
- Allegory (EXAMPLE)
- Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- Voice
- A property of verbs or a set of verb inflections indicating the relation between the subject and the action expressed by the verb
- Allusion
- A passing or casual reference, either directly or by implication
- Paradox (EXAMPLE 2)
- "I am lying"
- Satire (EXAMPLE)
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell (a ______ of Stalinism)