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Lit Terms

Lit Terms. By Mark Falamoun, Robert Lewis and Nicole Carrasco. Hyperbole. A trope in which a point is stated in a way that is greatly exaggerated. Example: Othello Othello greeting his new wife after surviving a harsh storm. “O my soul’s joy! If After every tempest come such calms,

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Lit Terms

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  1. Lit Terms By Mark Falamoun, Robert Lewis and Nicole Carrasco

  2. Hyperbole • A trope in which a point is stated in a way that is greatly exaggerated. Example: Othello Othello greeting his new wife after surviving a harsh storm. “O my soul’s joy! If After every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have wakened death!”

  3. Understatement • A form of irony in which a point is deliberately expressed as less, in magnitude, value, or importance, than it actually is. Example: In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio shrugs off his fatal wound as “a scratch.”

  4. Paradox • A trope in which a statement that appears to be contradictory on the surface turns out to express a striking truth. Example: “Less is more”

  5. Oxymoron • A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction Examples: “Bittersweet” “A living death” “passive aggressive”

  6. Litotes • When a point is affirmed by negating its opposite. Example: “He’s no fool” meaning he’s wise.

  7. Periphrasis • When a point is stated indirectly instead of directly. Examples “passed away” instead of “died” “in his cups” instead of “drunk”

  8. Pun • A pun plays on words that have the same sound (homonyms) or sounds that are similar, but have very different meanings. • Equivoque- A special form of a pun. Where a word or phrase that has disparate meanings is used in a way that makes each meaning equally relevant. • Example: “A cleft in your chin instead of your foot, but no less a devil for that.” -Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy

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