Shared Flashcard Set

Details

English Flash Cards
Vocabulary Literary Terms For Friday
20
English
10th Grade
01/22/2014

Additional English Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Personification
Definition
Attribution of human nature or character to animals
Term
Simile
Definition
A comparison between two things using like or as
Term
Metaphor
Definition
describes a subject by asserting that it's on some point of comparison
Term
Metonymy
Definition
a thing or concept is caused by its own name but something that is associated with it
Term
Synedoche
Definition
A term for a part of something refers to the whole something or vice-versa
Term
Hyperbole
Definition
The use of exaggeration as a figure of speech. Strong feelings
Term
Pathetic Fallacy
Definition
literary term for the attributing of human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature
Term
Epigram
Definition
A brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or statical statement
Term
Onomatopeia
Definition
having a sound that imitaes what they denote
Term
Apostrophe
Definition
Indicating the omission of one or more letters from a word, the possesive case
Term
Blank Verse
Definition
Unrhymed lines
Term
Free Verse
Definition
Verse not following a convetinal metrical an stanzaic pattern
Term
Paradox
Definition
An essentially self-contradictory assertion based on valid deduction
Term
Litotes
Definition
Expressing an affirmative by the negation of its oppositie
Term
Oxymoron
Definition
Antithetical in congruous term are combined
Term
Assonance
Definition
Accented vowel sounds correspond but the consonance different
Term
Alliteration
Definition
Use of the same consontant at the begining of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Term
Ode
Definition
A lyric poem with complex stanza forms
Term
Epic
Definition
Long narrative poem telling of hero's deeds
Term
Carpe Diem
Definition
Seize of the dat. Puts little trust in tomorrow
Supporting users have an ad free experience!