General Analysis Terms – section 3 please
Allusion – see notes
Alliteration – repetition of beginning consonant sounds
Infer – draw a conclusion based on evidence provided
Litotes – a form of understatement in which a thing is
affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite. “She
was not untalented” which means “She was the best
player of all”
Motifs – patterns of details that recur throughout a
work. Images of light and dark, summer and winter, day
and night are examples of motifs
Personification – giving a non-human object human
qualities or abilities. “The daffodils danced in the
breeze” is personification since flowers have no legs.
Simile – a comparison of two unlike things using “like”
or “as”
Symbols – a physical object which represents a quality
or idea
Synecdoche – using a part to represent the whole.
Calling your car “wheels”, your clothes “threads” are
synecdoches.