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| allusion | When I was running late this morning I thought, "to be late, or not to be late; that is the question." |
| metaphor | Students are sailors on a journey. |
| simile | The moon hung like a light bulb in the sky. |
| figurative language | Why are you dancing around the subject? |
| alliteration | Mike's mean mother meant well. |
| antanaclasis | The month of March marches on. |
| synesthesia | We tasted the salty grin on the trickster's face. |
| repetition | Without a dream, without faith, without hope, there is nothing. |
| parallelism | I like to dance; John likes to sing; and Crystal likes to act. |
| imagery | The bruise on her arm was purple at top, blue at center, and the size of a dime. |
| personification | Your homework will rise up and bite you if you put it off. |
| conceit | Students are sailors on a journey; teachers are their captains, and hard work is their northern star. |
| synechdoce | Are you a musician? Do you play the keys? |
| metonymy | You can't fight city hall. |
| euphemism | I am not feeling well today. (instead of I gotta puke) |
| situational irony | The doctor's office closed down due to illness. |
| Tom Swifty | "We should all give blood," said Frances veinly. |
| dead metaphor or cliche | It's as dark as night outside. |
| rhetorical questioning | Have you ever wondered how the stars got in the sky? Have you ever wished on a star? |
| rhyme | I love that glove; where did you get it? |
| understatement | The tornado made the task of driving a bit more difficult. |
| hyperbole | I've told you a billion times to clean this room! |
| assonance | I should have studied more; I hate this grade. |
| consonance | Throw the stick and the dog will watch and fetch. |
| invective | The idea is reprehensible, vicious, and ignorant. |
| Horatian satire | gentle kidding in order to promote change |
| local color | an author's attention to setting details icluding the dialect of characters |
| Juvenalian satire | harsh criticism which intends to ridicule |
| syntax | use this word to describe word ORDER |
| inversion | Backwards this is. |
| diction | use this word to describe word CHOICE |
| paradox | The more I hate him, the more I love him (not parallelism) |
| oxymoron | jumbo shrimp |
| caesura | This is a line of poetry, I say. |
| foreshadowing | details that hint at what is to come |
| analogy | For answers successfully arrived at are solutions to difficulties previously discussed, and one cannot untie a knot if he is ignorant of it. -- |
| antithesis | two contrasting ideas juxtaposed for effect |
| diacope | We will do it, I tell you; we will do it. |
| enumeratio | I love her eyes, her hair, her nose, her cheeks, her lips |
| foil | contrasting and opposing characters |
| flashback | A device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narration or the current events in the fiction. Various methods can be used, including memories, dream sequences, stories or narration by characters, or even authorial sovereignty |
| epizeuxis | The best way to describe this portion of South America is lush, lush, lush. |
| onomatopoeia | Moo, quack, smack, bleet. |
| cacophony | A toad the power mower caught, Chewed and clipped of a leg, with a hobbling hop has got |
| euphony | The word plum is delicious pout and push, luxury of self-love... |
| parenthesis | People tell me she is beautiful - she knows it is true - and this makes her uneasy. |
| persona | The person created by the author to tell a story. |
| apostrophe | Oh, Spring Break! When will you come? |
| ambiguity | As I read the novel, I was initially confused. I was mesmorized by the conflicting information and possibilities of meaning. Later, conflicts were resolved and the meaning was no longer intentionally puzzling. |
| mood,tone,or attitude | Morose,macabre,grim,gothic - these words describe the ____ of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." |
| soliloquy | Alone on the stage, Lady Macbeth began expressing her internal thoughts to an audience who benefits from her "thinking out loud." |
| aside | In "Saved By the Bell" that one kid likes to turn to the audience and make quick remarks; the other kids act like they don't hear him or notice his interruptions. |
| stereotype | A flat character which is known by its familiar characteristics. |
| analogy | For answers successfully arrived at are solutions to difficulties previously discussed, and one cannot untie a knot if he is ignorant of it. |
| scansion | Check a poem vertically for its rhyme scheme, but check it horizontally and you'll be employing this as a means to determine its meter. |
| pathos | The scene evoked my true pity. It wasn't too much emotion; it was genuine and real. |
| 1st person point of view | In "Gulliver's Travels," Swift uses this by making the main character the actual narrator. |
| hubris | Why did that character test his own mortality? His tragic flaw is showing. How terrible for him! Oh, the foolhardy pride! |
| epiphany | There's a wonderful moment in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy realizes that she has had the power to return home all along. |
| enjambment | When a line of poetry is intended to be read by snaking your eyes around from line to line. The poetic line doesn't end cleanly with the end of the thought. |
| colloquialism | What's the matter? Cat got your tongue? |
| chorus | They speak words of warning; they are a link from play's action to audience. |
| round character | Numerous details help make the character seem real and fully developed. |
| catharsis | I felt a satisfactory release of emotion when the dog finally found his owner. |
| sentimentality | When a work is characterized by its use of |
| pun | How did the street get into town? He RODE. |
| anachronism | A Shakespearean actor wears a digital watch. |
