49
Literary Terms Tricks of the trade people!
Literary TermsTricks of the trade people!
Lyric:Logan and Dallas:
- Definition:Having the form and musical quality of a song, and especially a songlikeoutpouring of the poet’s own thoughts and feelings..
Ex: “Ate the pork chop sandwich with the tartar sauceIn the packet that I found in my purple Prada pocket protector”
A lyric from the song; Lava Glaciers: By Riff Raff, ft. Childish Gambino
Ballad:
Logan and Dallas
Definition:a simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
dramatic monologue definition:apoetic form in which a single character, addressing a silentauditor at a critical moment, reveals him/herself and the dramatic situation
A verse that does not follow a regular patternexample: Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comeson little cat feet. It sits lookingover harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.
Free Verse: Rayne, Munroop
Ode : Rayne, MunroopA poem intended to be sung, typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exhaltic or enthusiastic emotion.ex. Ode to JoyThe muppets
a mournful,melancholy, or plaintive poem, written in elegiac meter
Ex. “Oh Captain My Captain”by Walt Whiteman
Elegy: Rayne, Munroop
Sonnet (English)
A sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme
Click here:Sonnet Example
By Sydney and Kienen
Sonnet (Italian)A rhyming poem containing an octave of abbaabba followed by a sestet of either cdecde or cdcdcd
Kienen & Sydney
Blank VersePoetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters.
Click here:Blank Verse Example
By Sydney and Kienen
Alliteration The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables in a phrase.
By Cassie & Maddi
AssonanceTakes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.
By Cassie & Maddi
ConsonanceRefers to repetitive sounds produced by consonant sounds within a sentence or phrase. Often takes place in quick succession such as pitter, patter.
By Cassie & Maddi
Oxymoron figure of speech, when two words with opposing meaning are used together intentionally for effect
Travis D Jordyn C
Metonymy
A figure of speech where an object’s name is replaced with another name that it is closely connected with.
Travis DJordyn C
Synecdoche figure of speech in which a term for a part
of something refers to the whole of something, or vice versa
Travis DJordyn C
Metaphor:A figure of speech when two unlike
objects are compared.Example:
“Time is a thief”
Greg and Chris
Personification:When an inanimate object is
given human qualitiesExample:
“The wind whistled through the trees.”
Greg and Chris
Simile:When two unlike things are compared using like or as
Example:
“Firemen are as hot as a burning building.”
Greg and Chris
"Here Captain! dear father!/This arm beneath your head;/It is some dream that on deck,/You've fallen cold and dead."-"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman
example Ode to the Confederate Dead by Allen Tate.
Definition: over reacting or over exaggerating to make a point.Example: > “I’ve told you a million times.”> “I am so hungry I could eat a horse.”> “She is as skinny as a toothpick.”
Clifford, Jessi
Hyperbole
Definition: a figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expression.Examples:> “The ice cream was not too bad”> “You are not as young as you used to be”
Clifford, Jessi
Litotes
An act of talking while or as if alone, which is often used as a dramaticdevice to show the character’s innermost thoughts.Ex:" O Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?" -Romeo and Juliet
Soliloquy
Mackenzie& Sydney
Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered around a hero, in which a series of great events is narrated in elevated style.
Ex: Batman is epic.
Mackenzie & Sydney
Epic
Having the simplicity, charm, serenity, or other characteristics generally attributed to rural areas.
Pastoral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dk6Dq_5K1Y
Sean and Wyatt
Example: A pastoral scene
The definition of foreshadowing is a literary device used by authors, writers, and filmmakers to enhance the storyline and to create more suspense.
Foreshadowing In the fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, the mother is concerned for her safety and that foreshadows the appearance of the big bad wolf.
Example
Wyatt and Sean
Stanza or poem with four lines, usually with alternate rhymes.
Quatrain Nikki and Megan
Stanza of eight lines, especially the first eight lines of a sonnet in the Italianform.
Octave Nikki and Megan
A pair of successive lines of verse,especially a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
Couplet Nikki and Megan
The form of imitative and naturally suggestive words for rhetorical,dramatic, or poetic effect. eg “meow”, “boom”
Ex: The buzzing bee flew away.
Onomatopoeia
Mackenzie & Sydney
Onomatopoeia: The formation of words to create sounds.Ex. Boom.Bang.Crack yee
Onomatopoeia:Freddy & Brittny
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
Metaphor: Freddy & Brittny
Personification : Giving human traits to non-human objects.
Personification: Freddy & Brittny
Definition:The last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form.
-Example of a sestet-Behind me dips eternity-Emily DickinsonBehind Me -- dips Eternity --Before Me -- Immortality --Myself -- the Term between --Death but the Drift of Eastern Gray,Dissolving into Dawn away,Before the West begin --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTP1-rgn-kE
Sestet
Roger and Kaia
Definition:The pattern of rhymes used in a poem,usually marked by letters to symbolise correspondences (aabbcc)
Rhyme scheme
Roger and Kaia
Definition:a statement or proposition that seems self contradictory or absurd, but in reality expresses a possible truth.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtU2Mth86Hc
Paradox
Kaia and Roger
Apostrophe is a figure of speech represented by exclamation. A writer or speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself/herself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his/her speech.
Examples:> “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
Clifford, Jessi
Apostrophe
Dialect- Calee Q and Justin PDefition: A special variety of a language.
Link: http://vimeo.com/80310253 watch from 2:57-4:04
Example: Put dis in yo mouf or da person went to da store
Epithet-Calee Q and Justin PDefinition: Any word or phrase, Applied to a person or thing, to describe an actual or attributed qualityVideo: Heaven-Bryan AdamsExample: Shakespeare’s work- “Thou mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms! (Henry IV) and “Death lies on her like an untimely frost. Upon the sweetest flower of all the field…” (Romeo and Juliet).
Allegory-Calee Q and Justin PDefinition: A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another, thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and an abstract meaning.
Example: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis is a religious allegory with Aslan as Christ and Edmund as Judas.
video:
The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
Pun
Examples:-I really wanted a camouflage shirt, but I couldn't find one.-A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat.-After hours of waiting for the bowling alley to open, we finally got the ball rolling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y6zNR4X8xsWyatt and Sean
Harsh discordance of sounds. creates an atmosphere for the reader.
Examples: tongue twisters, like she sells seashells by the sea shore
Cacophony: Gaige and Savannah
Agreeableness of sounds; pleasing effect to the ears example:
Euphony:Gaige and Savannah
Internal Rhyme:Gaige and Savannah
An end rhyme is the most common type of rhyme in poetry. an end rhyme is rhyming words at the end of a sentence in a poem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PF-Nwl06YA
Cameron Paille Kent Noble
End Rhyme
A stanza is like a paragraph.It’s a group of poetic sentences
separated by spaces.
An example of a stanza is, what this slide is written as.
stanza one.brake.
stanza two.brake.
stanza three.
it is really easy.Kent Noble Cameron Paille
stanza
MetonomyDefinition: a different word used in place of another with the same meaning
Ex. Let me give you a hand
hand= help
The pen is mightier than the swordpen= written words, sword= military force
The House was called to orderhouse= members of parliament
We have always remained loyal to the crowncrown= king
If you liked it then you should have put a ring on itring= marriage
Alexa and Hector
