Literary Terms
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.