Literary TERMS!!!!
Terms
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- paradox
- statement that seems opposed to ccommon sense or contradicts itself
- tragedy
- drama or lit - bad things happen
- analogy
- extended comparision; shows similarities
- anecdote
- brief account of an incident
- suspense
- quality of work that makes the reader uncertain or tense about events
- rhetorical shift
- change from one tone to another
- satire
- style - uses humor to criticize people, ideas etc
- forshadowing
- hints that suggest events yet to occur
- motif
- feature, idea that's prevalent in the novel
- pun
- clint joke
- climax
- moment of greatest emotinal intensity, turning point
- setting
- time/place of story
- foil
- character opposite another character
- theme
- central idea or message in work of lit or drama
- couplet
- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
- flashback
- interrupts lit seq of events to relate to a previous event
- soliloquy
- speech in which a character speaks his or her private thoughts out loud
- connotation
- the context/feeling/attitude with the word
- rhetorical question
- a question in a piece of writing for which the author does not actually want an answer
- epithet
- wordy phrase
- rhetoric
- art of persuasion
- apostrophe
- fig of speech in which some absent person is directly addressed
- synecdote
- metaphor - part of something stands for the whole thing
- rising action
- leads to climax
- diction
- word choice
- denotation
- literal, Dictionary definition of a word
- consonance
- alliteration in poetry for a harmonious effect
- personification
- brings non-personal things to life
- parallelism
- arangement of equally important ideas in similar grammatical structure
- inversion
- the placing of a sentence out of its normal position for emphasis or special effect
- euphony
- pleasant sounding words
- jargon
- confused speech; outlandish speech
- allegory
- characters used to personify abstract qualitites
- syntax
- sentence structure
- anachronism
- something out of its normal time
- irony
- contrast or incongruity between what is stated and wht is meant
- metonymy
- form of metaphor which the name of one thing is applied to another in which it's closely associated
- understatement
- extreme form of irony
- assonance
- repitition of rhyming vowel sounds - ex free and easy
- style
- way which lit is written
- antagonist
- bad guy
- exposition
- part of plot that lays groundwork necessary background info
- pace
- speed which a plot moves
- falling action
- events that occur after climax
- epiphany
- sudden understanding/realization
- first person POV
- "I" - from your perspective
- voice
- writer's unique language allows reader to 'hear' the writer's personality
- imagery
- descriptive language
- alliteration
- repitition of consonants
- conflict
- struggle between two opposing forces
- inference
- process in which hints/clues are applied for the reader to draw a conclusion
- oxymoron
- contradiction in terms
- archetype
- original pattern after which an image, plot or character type is modeled
- symbol
- person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself
- antithesis
- fig of speech that contrasts words, clauses, sentences or ideas
- hyperbole
- exaggeration of the truth
- simile
- comp using like or as
- allusion
- reference to a famous work
- tone
- attitude WRITER takes toward a subject, character of audience
- metaphor
- comp without like or as
- euphemism
- a device in which indirect replaces direct in order to avoid unpleasantness
- third person POV
- story told by narrator outside action
- mood
- feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader
- juxtaposition
- poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas/etc are placed next to one another