| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Metaphor | a comparison of 2 unlike things |
| Simile | a comparison of 2 unlike things in a phrase introduced by like or as |
| Personification | a figure of speech where animals, ideas or objects are given human characteristics |
| Allusion | a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature |
| Pun | 2 words that sound the same but mean something different |
| Double Entendre | a word or expression that can be understood in 2 ways |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined; for example, thunderous silence |
| Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Malapropism | a verbal mistake, a ludicrous misuse of words, especially though confusion caused by resemblance in sounds; for example, "ethic" for "ethnic" |
| Soliloquy | an utterance by a character who is talking to himself or herself |
| Comic Relief | humorous or farcical interlude in a serious literary work, intended to relieve the dramatic tension or heighten the emotional impact by means of contrast |
| Aside | words spoken by an actor is such a way that they are heard by audience but supposedly not by the other actors |
| Foreshadowing | the process in a drama or narrative of giving the audience or reader a hing about a coming event |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg |
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