Third Set of Literary Terms
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- paradox
- a statement that seems absurd but expresses the truth
- parallelism
- repetition of a grammatical structure
- personification
- a nonhuman object is given human characteristics
- point of view
- the perspective from which a story is told
- repetition
- using a word/phrase more than once
- sarcasm
- type of irony where a person appears to be praising it but is actually insulting it
- sensory language
- writing that appeals to one or more of the senses
- setting
- time and place
- simile
- comparison that uses like or as between 2 unlike subjects
- symbol
- anything that stands or represents something else (abstract ideas)
- synecdoche
- form of metaphor in which a part of something is used to stand for the whole thing
- syntax
- physical arrangement of words in a sentence
- understatement
- saying less than what is actually meant in an ironic way
- verbal irony
- irony in which words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant
- catharsis
- a moral and spiritual cleansing; an empathic identification with others
- characterization
- act of creating a character
- connotation
- set of associations that occur to people when they hear/read the word
- denotation
- dictionary meaning of a word
- language
- entire body of words used in a text, describes the quality of diction, images, and details
- mood
- feeling created by the reader
- suspense
- feeling of curiosity
- style
- writer's distinctive mode of expression
- theme
- central message or insight into life
- pun
- play on words based on different meanings of words that sound alike
- rhetorical shift
- a change from one tone, attitude. keywords: however, even though, although, but, yet, etc