THE LOGOPHILE LEXICON
PART V: CORE COMPONENTS
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5.1: Core Components - Fiction
5.2a: Core Components - Types of Poetry
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5.1: Core Components - Fiction
5.2a: Core Components - Types of Poetry
- 5.2b: Poetry by the Numbers
- 5.2.c: Poetic Form and Structure
- 5.2d: Figures of Speech
- 5.2e: Poetic Movements and Ages
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Part 5.2d: Core Components- Figures of Speech
ALLEGORY - An extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning.
ALLUSION - A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
AMBIGUITY - A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is said to be ambiguous.
ANACHRONISM - Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period of time.
ANTHROPOMORPHISM - A form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept.
APHORISM - A pithy, instructive statement or truism, like a maxim or adage.
APOSTROPHE - An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.
ANTITHESIS - A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other.
EPIGRAPH - A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section.
HYPERBOLE - A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis.
IRONY - : As a literary device, irony implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
LITOTES - A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite.
METAPHOR - figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the word that would be expected.
METONYMY - A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
MIMESIS (imitation) - Greek for “imitation.”
OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE - Set of objects, a situation, a chain of events for the formula of a particular emotion that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader.
ONOMATOPOEIA - A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds.
OXYMORON - A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.
PARADOX - A seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth.
PARODY - A comic imitation of another author’s work or characteristic style.
PASTICHE - A patchwork of lines or passages from another writer (or writers), intended as a kind of imitation.
PATHETIC FALLACY - The assignment of human feelings to inanimate objects.
PERSONA - A dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem.
PERSONIFICATION
- A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes.
PUN - Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time.
SIMILE - A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as."
SUBLIME - A lofty, ennobling seriousness as the main characteristic of certain poetry.
SYMBOL - Something in the world of the senses, including an action, that reveals or is a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly.
SYNECDOCHE - A figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole or the whole is used to designate a part.
TROPE - Words are not used in their literal (or actual) sense but in a figurative (or imaginative) sense.
VERISIMILITUDE - The appearance of being true, or a likeness to truth.
ZEUGMA - One verb or preposition joins two objects within the same phrase, often with different meanings.
ALLUSION - A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
AMBIGUITY - A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is said to be ambiguous.
ANACHRONISM - Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period of time.
ANTHROPOMORPHISM - A form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept.
APHORISM - A pithy, instructive statement or truism, like a maxim or adage.
APOSTROPHE - An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.
ANTITHESIS - A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other.
EPIGRAPH - A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section.
HYPERBOLE - A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis.
IRONY - : As a literary device, irony implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
LITOTES - A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite.
METAPHOR - figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the word that would be expected.
METONYMY - A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
MIMESIS (imitation) - Greek for “imitation.”
OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE - Set of objects, a situation, a chain of events for the formula of a particular emotion that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader.
ONOMATOPOEIA - A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds.
OXYMORON - A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.
PARADOX - A seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth.
PARODY - A comic imitation of another author’s work or characteristic style.
PASTICHE - A patchwork of lines or passages from another writer (or writers), intended as a kind of imitation.
PATHETIC FALLACY - The assignment of human feelings to inanimate objects.
PERSONA - A dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem.
PERSONIFICATION
- A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes.
PUN - Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time.
SIMILE - A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as."
SUBLIME - A lofty, ennobling seriousness as the main characteristic of certain poetry.
SYMBOL - Something in the world of the senses, including an action, that reveals or is a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly.
SYNECDOCHE - A figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole or the whole is used to designate a part.
TROPE - Words are not used in their literal (or actual) sense but in a figurative (or imaginative) sense.
VERISIMILITUDE - The appearance of being true, or a likeness to truth.
ZEUGMA - One verb or preposition joins two objects within the same phrase, often with different meanings.
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