Literary Vocabulary

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Analogy: A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. Often, an analogy uses something simple or familiar to explain something unfamiliar or complex. 
Ex. A name is a rose
Apostrophe: A direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea.  
Ex. Death, Be Not Proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou are not so
Synesthesia: The use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another.  
Ex. Heard melodies are sweet
Allusion: A reference to something outside the text, usually a literary or historical reference. 
Ex. His smile is like kryptonite to me
Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words 
Ex.
Coca Cola
Parallel Structure: A sentence or clause that contains two or more independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction. 
Ex. Easy come, easy go.
Polysyndeton: The use of several conjunctions or, more usually, the same conjunction several times, in swift succession. 
Ex. Neither he nor his brother nor his mother nor his sister was present in the house
Asyndeton: the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence, as in I came, I saw, I conquered 
Ex. She laughed, she cried, she danced, she sang.
Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry. 
Ex. All day the wind breathes low with mellower tone.
Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds in a phrase or sentence before and after different vowels. 
Ex. His dumb warm comfort to the heart
Pun: A play on words, often humorous, that uses words with different meanings. 
Ex. With nimble soles I have a soul of lead.
Antithesis: Contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words or phrases 
Ex. Love is an ideal thing, marriage, a real thing
Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect 
Ex. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving at jet-like speed toward gaining political independence.