lit terms

1. allegory: a prolonged metaphor
2. Simile: a comparison of two things using the words like or as
3. litotes: understatement
4. onomatopoeia: making noises into words ex. whoosh, bam
5. caesura: a break or pause in a sentence or line
6. enjambment: the running over of one line into the next
7. apostrophe: the turning away from the audience to talk to someone who is dead, or not present
8. alliteration: using words that begin with the same sound or letter in a sentence
9. epic simile: a simile in which an action or something that has happened is compared to something in nature
10. epigram: a short letter, it originally meant an engraving on a tombstone
11. personification: giving something inanimate human qualities
12. metaphor: associating two things together
13. chiasmus: A B B A
14. elision: two words that run together
15. ellipsis: omission of words that are understood
16. oxymoron: combining two very different words into one phrase ex. "little giants"
17. irony:
18. rhetorical question: a question that is not meant to be answered
19. amoboen: two parties exchanging dialogue with another
20. catalogue: any list