Transcript Literary Terms Project - Vista Unified School District

Literary Terms Project
Allison Grenda
Curtis
AP English 11, Period 5
30 September 2011
Invective
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Definition: (noun) An
aggressive, insulting
verbal attack
Full of invectives!
Examples of Invectives
1.
"Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling
invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the
sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied pulse-less lot that make up
England today.” - D.H. Lawrence
2.
“I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most
pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to
crawl upon the surface of the earth.” - Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's
Travels
3.
“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the Nose, harmful to the
brain, dangerous to the Lungs, and in the black stinking fume
thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that
is bottomless.” – King James I, on tobacco
Irony/Ironic
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Definition: words that say one
thing, yet mean another
Verbal Irony – the words are the
opposite of the true meaning
Situational Irony – the expected
events are not what actually
happens
Dramatic Irony – the audience
knows things that the
characters are unaware of
*Be careful! Ironic phrases are
often just coincidences!
Examples of Irony
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3.
If you have a fear of long words, you have
Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
“I am a stickler for grammar, punctuation,
and spelling; not hard to understand yet
some people still don’t get it…glad your
educating the minions!”
The fish drowned.
Litotes
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Definition: An
understatement that is
shown by contrasting
its opposite – a double
negative of sorts.
He is not in perfect health.
Examples of Litotes
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2.
3.
He is not the most handsome fellow.
When one team beat the other, 13-0, the
losing team’s manager said, “It wasn’t our
best effort.”
Einstein was not a bad mathematician.
Loose sentence/Non-Periodic Clause
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Definition: A sentence
composed of an
independent clause
followed by one or
more dependent
clauses.
She went outside despite the
pouring rain and chilly
temperature.
Examples of Loose Sentences
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George went to the beach, where he knew
his friends were meeting him.
Bells rang, filling the air with their clangor,
startling pigeons into flight from every belfry.
The teacher considered him a good student,
steady if not inspired, willing if not eager,
responsive to instruction
and conscientious about his work.
Metaphor
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Definition: a comparison between two very
different things that, unlike a simile, does not
use ‘like’ or ‘as.’
The board meeting was a war.
Examples of Metaphors
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2.
3.
The bracelet was a snake, coiled around
her wrist.
“Love is a rose” – Neil Young
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men
and women merely players.” –William
Shakespeare
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