Language Highlights
About this set
Created by:
arechavalas on January 21, 2009
Subjects:
Log in to favorite or report as inappropriate.
Order by
21 terms
Italian | English |
|---|---|
 epithet | a brief descriptive name, title, or adjective that qualifies a person, place or thing |
| apostrophe | a writer addresses an abstract concept or absent person (written in 2nd person) |
| alliteration | the use of repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| assonance | the repetition of the same vowel sounds |
| consonance | the use of repeated consonant sounds at the ends of words |
| simile | comparison between two dissmilar things using like or as |
| metaphor | a direct comparison between to things |
| homeric simile | an extended simile which compared something familiar to Homer's audience to something unfamiliar, such as an unusually large or heroic action |
| imagery | creating mental pictures to express meaning |
| hyperbole | an exaggerated statement used to heighten effect |
| onomatopoeia | words that imitate the sounds of things they represent |
| verbal irony | saying one thing but meaning the opposite |
| dramatic irony | the audience or reader knows something important that a character does not know |
| rhythm | combination of stressed or unstressed words or syllables which create a pattern |
| character foil | a character who is used in contrast to another character- serves to emphasize the differences between the two |
| parallel structure | the repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same gramamatical pattern and restate a similar idea |
| repetition | the intentional repeating of words, phrases, lines, or ideas to create a musical or rhythmic effect |
| personification | a type of metaphor in which a nunhuman thing of quality is talked about as if it were human |
| foreshadowing | a technique by which an author gives hints about a future event |
| flashback | a literary device by which chronological narrative is interupted by the recollection of a scene from the past |
| allusion | a reference to past events in history, religion, mythology... |
First Time Here?
Welcome to Quizlet, a fun, free place to study. Try these flashcards, find others to study, or make your own.