Literary/Poetry/Syntax Terms FINAL
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- assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds
- alliteration
- repetition of same or similar initial consonant sounds
- compound sentence
- 2 or more independent clauses
- symbolism
- the use of object that stands for something larger than itself
- blank verse
- line of poetry/prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter
- oxymoron
- form of paradox that combines opposite terms into an expression
- free verse
- poetry w/o regular meter/rhyme
- euphemism
- mild expression substitute for something too harsh
- narrative
- poem that tells a story
- enjambment
- runon; line continues into another line
- assertions
- forceful statement of fact
- rhetorical questions
- question that has no answer
- balanced sentence
- has phrases or clauses that balance each other
- mockery
- ridicule
- direct address
- name of person speaking to stated
- epic
- long narrative poem that records adventure of hero
- allusion
- reference to something the reader knows
- epistrophe
- repetition of same word at ends of successive clauses
- understatement
- irony that deliberately represents something as less than it is
- metaphor
- comparison of two unlike things w/o "like" or "as"
- tongue-in-cheek
- insincerity; irony exaggeration
- sentence fragment
- piece of a sentence
- sonnet
- 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
- ellipsis
- deliberate omission of words implied
- juxtaposition
- normally unassociated ideas/words placed next to each other
- onomatopoeia
- use of words that mimic sounds
- personification
- kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects human characteristics
- declarations
- announcement
- simile
- comparison of two unlike things w/ "like" or "as"
- conceit
- elaborate extended metaphor
- foot
- metrical unit composed of stress/unstressed syllables
- rhetorical fragment
- sentence fragment used deliberately
- conjectures
- guesses
- foreshadowing
- use hints and clues to suggest future
- alliteration
- repetition of similar initial consonant sounds
- repetition
- repeating
- anaphora
- repetition of same word at beginning of successive clauses
- synecdoche
- form of metaphor where part represents whole
- meter
- measured pattern of rhythmic accent
- disingenuous
- false impression
- hyperbole
- deliberate extravagant exaggeration
- bitterness
- harsh due to past experience
- parallelism
- grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of sentence
- syntax
- arrangement of words; order of grammatical elements
- apostrophe
- speaking to absent/dead as if present
- internal rhyme
- rhyme within the line
- assumptions
- took for granted
- lyric
- type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and expression of feeling
- moralism
- teaching a moral lesson
- anaphora
- repetition of same word at beginning of clauses
- epanalepsis
- repetition of word at end of clause that occurred at beginning of clause
- paradox
- an apparent contradiction that asserts truth
- asyndeton
- deliberate omission of conjunctions in series
- allusion
- reference to something the reader knows
- irony
- contrast between expectation and reality
- cynicism
- belief that people are motivated selfishly
- analogy
- a comparison of two things
- balanced
- phrases/clauses balance each other out