Literary Crit #3
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snapsforaimee on January 23, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Image | originally a sculptured, cast, or modeled representation of a person; even in its most sophisticated critical usage, this fundamental meaning is still present in that an image is a literal and concrete representation of a sensory experience or of an object that can be known by one or more of the senses |
| Imagery | in its literal sense means the collection of images in a literary work. In another sense, it is associated with trope or figure of speech. The trope designates a special usage of words in which there is a change in their basic meaning |
| Metaphor | an analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second |
| Metonymy | the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself; involves a continuous association from whole to part, unlike metaphor |
| Personification | a figure that endows animals, ideas, abstraction, and inanimate objects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence, and emotions |
| Simile | a figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expressed; introduced by like or as |
| Symbol | something that is itself and also stands for something else. In a literary sense, it combines a literal and sensuous quality with an abstract or suggestive aspect. |
| Symbolism | the use of one object to represent or suggest another; the serous and extensive use of symbols |
| Synecdoche | a trope in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part. |
| Tenor | the idea being expressed or the subject of the comparison; the vehicle in a metaphorical statement |
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