Vocab 1-FSS
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- meiosis/ litotes
- understatement
- enjambment
- continuatoin of one thought seperated by 2 lines in a poem for dramatic effect
- Consonance
- repeated consonant sound in a bunch of words
- Assonance
- repeated vowel sound in a bunch of words
- Alliteration
- 2 or more words starting with the same sound consecutively
- situational irony
- strangely inappropriate things that happen that make sense in a weird way: diver drowns in bathtub
- Antithesis
- opposite words: sink or swim
- oxymoron
- to complete opposites
- Allusion
- refrense to art, history, literature
- dramatic irony
- audience knows something a character doesn't
- simile
- comparrison that uses like or as
- personification
- giving human characteristic to unhuman objects
- Apostrophe
- address to an absent or imaginary person
- metaphor
- comparisson that does not use like or as
- metonymy
- an object representing a group of people: the white house raising taxes
- synecdoche
- part reprents the whole, while represnt the part: not harm a head on head
- allegory
- symbolic representation: animal farm, the animals represent the people
- paradox
- statement that is sensible but impossible: the more you learn, the less you know
- onomatopoeia
- sounds spelled as they sound
- hyperbole
- massive exeggeration
- verbal irony
- sarcasim