Daniela Zavala Melo
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1.Diction
How clearly someone pronounces
words
Example Keats in his “Ode to the Grecian Urn” uses formal diction to achieve a certain effect. He goes:
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft
pipes, play on”
2.Extended Metaphor
refers to a
comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a
series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
Example
“Bobby
Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in
ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart
wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step
back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool
down.”
(Dean Koontz, Seize the Night.
Bantam, 1999)
3.Essay
A piece of writing that discusses a
subject
Example
“As
I passed through the gates I heard a squeaky voice. A diminutive middle-aged
man came out from behind the trees — the caretaker. He worked a
toothbrush-sized stick around in his mouth, digging into the crevices between
algae’d stubs of teeth. He was barefoot; he wore a blue batik shirt known as a
buba, baggy purple trousers, and an embroidered skullcap. I asked him if he
would show me around the shrine. Motioning me to follow, he spat out the
results of his stick work and set off down the trail.”(From “The Sacred Grove of Oshogbo” by Jeffrey Tayler)
4.Exposition
The act of expounding, setting forth,
or explaining
Example
The exposition of different points of
view between the classmates
OR
An exposition is typically positioned at the beginning of a novel or a movie because the author wants the readers to be fully aware of the characters in the story. The famous story for children titled “The Three Little Bears” applies this technique of exposition.
Example 2
Once upon a time, there were three bears. There was a Daddy Bear, who was very big, a Mama Bear, who was middle-sized, and a Baby Bear, who was very small. They all lived together in a little cottage in the middle of the woods. Their favorite breakfast was porridge. One morning, after they made their porridge, Daddy Bear said, ‘Let’s go for walk in the woods until it cools.’ Mama Bear and Baby Bear liked the idea, so off they went. While they were away, a little girl named Goldilocks came walking through the forest and smelled the porridge…
5.Figurative Language
Language used by writers to produce
images in reader’s minds and to express
ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways
Examples
Term
Alliteration
The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
Example
The wild and woolly walrus waits and wonders when we’ll walk by
Term
Assonance
Definition
A resemblance of sound in words or syllables
Example
holy & stony
and
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese
Term
Cliche
Definition
A word or phrase that has become overly familiar or commonplace
Example
No pain, no gain
Term
Hyperbole
Definition
Big exaggeration, usually with humor
Example
mile-high ice-cream cones
Term
Idiom
Definition
The language peculiar to a group of people
Example
She sings at the top of her lungs
Term
Metaphor
Definition
Comparing two things by using one kind of object or using in place of another to suggest the likeness between them
Example
Her hair was silk
Term
Onomatopoeia
Definition
Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it
Example
buzz, hiss, roar, woof
Term
Personification
Definition
Giving something human qualities
Example
The stuffed bear smiled as the little boy hugged him close
Term
Simile
Definiton
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as
Example
6.Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing often appears at the
beginning of a story or a chapter and helps the reader develop expectations
about the coming events in a story.
Example
Shakespeare’s
“Romeo and Juliet” is rich with foreshadowing examples. One of which is the
following lines
“Life
were better ended by their hate,
Than
death prorogued, wanting of thy love”
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