Vocab Review Set 4
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- form of expression in which words are used out of their usual sense in order to make the meaning more specific
- FIGURE OF SPEECH
- a comparison of two things with the use of 'like' or 'as'
- SIMILE
- a comparison, either expressed or implied, without the use of 'like' or 'as'
- METAPHOR
- an obvious exaggeration for the sake of effect without any attempt at deception
- HYPERBOLE
- a figure in which a concrete object is used to used for an abstract idea
- SYMBOL
- the use of a word for another with which it is intimately associated
- METONYMY
- an address to dead as if living, to the inanimate as if animate, the absent as if present, or the unborn as if alive
- APOSTROPHE
- the giving of personality of life to inanimate objects or ideas
- PERSONIFICATION
- a question to which no answer is expected or implies its own answer
- RHETORICAL QUESTION
- an expression which actually says less than might be said
- UNDERSTATEMENT
- a narrative in which characters, objects, and events have underlying political, relgious, moral, or social meanings
- ALLEGORY
- a short religious allegory
- PARABLE
- a short secular allegory
- FABLE
- two incongruous or inconsistent figures of speech combined to make one
- MIXED FIGURE OF SPEECH
- the ridiculous misuse of a word
- MALAPROPISM
- the imitation of sounds by words either directly or suggestively
- ONOMATOPOEIA
- a statement that either seems to or actually does contradict itself
- PARADOX
- a work mimicking the language, style, or ideas of another for comic effect
- PARODY
- a restatement of a passage in one's own words
- PARAPHRASE
- a quality in a piece of literature which excites pity, sorrow, or sympathy in the reader
- PATHOS
- a brief, epigrammatic saying that has become a byword
- PROVERB
- a novel in which what goes on in the characters' minds and why they act as they do are of more importance than what happens
- PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVEL
- a play on words that sound alike, usually for the sake of humor
- PUN
- a theory of writing which emphasizes that REAL, not idealized, life must be presented in a story or drama
- REALISM
- the term applied to writing which presents life as it is
- REALISTIC
- the part of a drama or a narrative in which the problems created by complications are solved and the stage is set for the denouement. also - the 4th act of an elizabethan drama
- RESOLUTION
- control over and repression of feelings, a quality of good poetry
- RESTRAINT
- the term applied to writing which emphasizes style, usually at the expense of thought
- RHETORICAL
- a kind of novel that deals with people, events, and places that are unreal or out of the ordinary
- ROMANCE
- the term applied to that which in literature is not essentially true in life
- ROMANTIC
- a literary movement which reacted against the regimentation of the 18th century
- ROMANTICISM
- a bitter remark intended to hurt the feelings of the individual at whom it is aimed
- SARCASM
- a form of writing in which the human follies and vices are held up to ridicule, generally with the intention of reform
- SATIRE
- a minor divison of a play, generally dealing with a single situation or episode
- SCENE
- delicate and refined expession of emotion
- SENTIMENT
- in a drama or narrative, the time and place in which the action occurs
- SETTING
- a method used by Socrates of leading another, especailly an opponent in argument, to the desire conclusuion through the use of an orderly sequence of questions
- SOCRATIC METHOD
- the particular manner of expression of a writer which distinguishes him from other writers
- STYLE
- the repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis or rhetorical effect
- REPETITION
- the grammatical construction of a word in a sentence
- SYNTAX