Rowe and Reedy literary terms: definitions: all 20
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FHSLearningCenter on March 1, 2011
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alliteration through tone
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FHS Eng. 12, Fairport High School
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| allusion | reference to a well-known event |
| anachronism | out of historical time sequence |
| antagonist | opposition to main character |
| apostrophe | (as a language term) speaking to one absent or deceased |
| conceit | an elaborate metaphor comparing two things that are startlingly different |
| connotation | feeling of a word; the secondary meaning of a word |
| diction | a speaker's choice of words |
| didactic | lesson teaching |
| epiphany | light bulb moment, or a realization |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for effect |
| inversion | reversal of normal word order in sentence or phase |
| metonymy | a person, place, thing is referred to by something closely associated with it...linked, but not necessarily a part of something. |
| onomatopoeia | sound words |
| paradox | seemingly contradictory |
| parallel structure | words or phrases with similar grammatical structures |
| personification | giving human characteristics to a non human |
| rhetorical question | has no expected answer |
| synecdoche | a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole represents a part |
| tone | attitude author shows, i.e. playful, serious, condescending, etc. |
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