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Flashcards by Claire Collins, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Claire Collins
over 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Pun | The use of words to exploit double-meanings for humorous effects |
| Alliteration | Use of the same sound at the start of words occurring together |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to something |
| Theme | Recurring idea |
| Tone | An indicator of attitude, emotion or thoughts |
| Dramatic irony | In drama, the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of |
| First person | A story narrated by one character |
| Assonance | The rhyming of vowel sounds |
| Oxymoron | Figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory ideas |
| Cliché | Expression or idea that is no longer effective because of overuse |
| Third person | Where the characters in the narrative are distinct from the person telling the story |
| Colloquial | A manner of speaking that is informal and uses phrases or words associated with a particular area. |
| Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration for effect |
| Imagery | Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience |
| Irony | When a statement is apparently straight forward but there are undercurrents that offer a different significance |
| Paradox | Person or thing made up of contradictory elements |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech in which a term is applied to something it does not literally denote in order to imply a resemblance |
| Pathetic Fallacy | When the weather or natural world reflect the mood of the writing |
| Protagonist | Leading character in a play or story |
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