Monday, January 11, 2010

Literary Elements: TAKS PT 3



1. SATIRE-A literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.

2. IRONY-A pretense of ignorance of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning.

3. ANALOGY-Inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will prob. agree in others.

4. FORESHADOWING-To represent, indicate, or typify beforehand.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Figurative-Of or relative to representation of form or figure in art

Figure of Speech-A for of expression (as a simile or metaphor used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.

Imagery-Mental images.

Trope-The use of a word or expression in a figurative sense.

They all mean they want you to get the picture of what you are trying to say.