Literary terms

By Andres Mendoza

Alliteration

• The repletion of the same consonant sounds In lines of poetry or prose. You can write a poem using alliteration, where each line has three or four words beginning with the same letter or letters.

• Schemes, which include alliteration, chiasmus, etc. , have more to do with expression

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Analogy

• An explanation or description of something unfamiliar or difficult to explain by comparison with something familiar .

• You can draw analogy to two people holding the key for the same lock.

• pushing the analogy further, architecture could be considered an ' operating system ' within which people write their own programs for spatial interaction.

Euphemism

• Using mild words to describe something instead of using possibility offensive or sexist terms .

• The phrase has become a euphemism for the erosion of workers ' basic rights.

• It uses the euphemism ' value for money ' to justify its poverty pay measures.

• It seems that all the ingenuity has gone into inventing new euphemisms rather than finessing them into poetry.

Hyperbole

• Exaggeration to create an effect .

• Why would the son of God confuse us by using hyperbole?

• Item notes within this site aim for honesty and reliability and attempt to avoid hyperbole and deceipt.

Imagery

• The use of words or phrase that evoke the sensation of sight ,hearing ,touch ,smell, or taste .

• My work is mainly inspired by old advertising imagery, naive drawings and textile design.

• Each of the five magic notes provokes a different emotion and each will be accompanied by imagery, all devised by the youngsters themselves.

Irony

• A contrast or incongruity between what is stated and what is meant (verbal irony ), or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens (irony of situation ) .

Metaphor

• A direct comparison between two unlike things without using the words ‘as’.

• Metaphors borrowed from computing were used to understand life forms as biochemical machines whose efficiency coefficients could be raised by precise genetic reprogramming.

• This article describes a more structured approach to working with embodied metaphors.

Onomatopoeia

• Words whose sounds suggests their meaning .

• Activity 3 - writing a glass recycling poem using onomatopoeia.

• explore, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and distinctive rhythms.

Oxymoron

• Two or three words that combine opposite or contradiction ideas such as ‘wise fool’ sweet sorrow , or jumbo shrimp.

• Answer The young boy was an antagonist because he always got in a fight for the answer.

Antagonist

• a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.

• This belongs to a class of medicine called the glycine antagonists.

• Yet the advice to use double dose histamine antagonists seems to be almost universal.

Protagonist

• the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.

• To enhance collaborative research involving protagonists from one or more of the two communities.

• May the peoples of Africa become the protagonists of their own future and their own cultural, civil, social and economic development!

Foreshadowing

• the organization and presentation of events and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader or observer is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work.

• However, this foreshadowed some truly horrible events

to take place in the not to distant future.

However, the beginning foreshadows the end of the times of the Gentiles.

Flash back.

• a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.

• A recurring, intensely vivid mental image of a past traumatic experience.

• An unexpected recurrence of the effects of a hallucinogenic drug long after its original use.