Literary Terms

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WHAT IS PERSONIFICATION?


A variety of figrative or metaphorical language in whic thins or ideas are treated as if they are human attributes and feelings.

Oximoron:


A figure of speech in which contradictory terms are brought together in what is at first sight an impossible combination.

Example:

  • I burn and freeze like ICE.
  • The darkness visible.

    • Soliloquy:


    A curious but fascinating dramatic convention which allows a character in a play to speak directly to the audience, as if they thinking aloud about motives, feelings and decisions

    Example:


    Shakes Pear's Macbeth and Hamlet

    Irony:


    Difference between appearance and reality, To say something and meaning something.

    Blank Verse:


    It is a literary term define as unrhyming written in iambic pentameter. It is used in poetry and prose. A line of five iambs introduced by Henry Howard.

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