| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Figurative Language | language with deeper meaning |
| metaphor | comparison without using like or as |
| simile | comparison using like or as |
| symbol | concrete images that stands for an abstract ides |
| personification | giving human characteristics to a nonhuman object |
| hyperbole | exageration |
| Oxymoron | two opposites together ex: "bittersweet" |
| Imagery | use of language to envoke sensory experience |
| Tone | author's attitude towards his or her subject |
| Rhythm | pattern of beats and accents in poetry |
| Irony | situation or phrasing that performs something contrary to expectation |
| Allusion | a reference in text to a passage or figure from literary, popular, or religious traditions |
| Denotation | literal meaning |
| Connotation | emotional meaning of a word |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it is describing (boom/buzz/clang) |
| Rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyming lines in a poem or song |
| Alliteration | rthe repetition of identical constant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive syllables |
| Repetition | reiteration of a word, sound, phrase, or idea |
| Theme | the central idea suggested by a literary work |
| Motif | any significant repetition of images, symbols, language, actions, or other elements of a literary work |
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