Some more terms...

Okay ... please remember that this blog is more for my study purposes than for those of y'all who might be reading it. I have really been taking my time reading several different overviews of the book to get a feel for what's coming. I have stumbled upon several more literary terms that I would like to keep in mind as I'm studying:

*Assonance - (1): resemblance of sound in words or syllables; (2) a: relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds especially of vowels, b: repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse.
 
*Chiasmus - an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go).  (Lou Ann's note:  this term seems to indicate a crossing over ... I'm going to look into it further.)
 
*Illustration - an example or instance that helps make something clear.
 
*Analogy - (1): inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others; (2) a: resemblance in some particulars between things otherwise unlike: SIMILARITY;  b: comparison based on such resemblance; (3): correspondence between the members of pairs or sets of linguistic forms that serves as a basis for the creation of another form.
 
*Anthropomorphism - an interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics.
 
I must give credit where credit is due.  I found these definitions on the Mirriam-Webster website, which I use quite frequently in most of my writing/typing, be it personal or professional.