Chesterfield Literary Terms
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds
- assonance
- the patterns of rhymes in a poem
- rhyme scheme
- technique in which the reader uses his or her own judgement to decide what a character is like based on evidence the writer gives the reader
- indirect characterization
- a story that can be interpreted on various levels; a story that conveys a moral message; each character or event symbolizes something else
- allegory
- short dramatic work performed by one; long uninterrupted speech delivered by one person
- monologue
- a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines
- refrain
- vantage point of a story; who is telling the story
- point of view
- extreme exaggeration
- hyperbole
- an all-knowing third person point of view
- omniscient point of view
- musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or other sound patterns
- rhythm
- an account of a person's life written or told by another person
- biography
- a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
- irony
- a song that tells a story
- ballad
- a play on the multiple meanings of a word; two words that sound alike but have different meanings
- pun
- a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as
- metaphor
- language that appeals to the five senses
- imagery
- writer says one thing but means another
- verbal irony
- an informal record or communication; a brief written reminder
- memo
- a long fictional story
- novel
- long narrative poem that relates great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of his or her society
- epic
- when conflict in a story is solved
- resolution
- makes reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing know in literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
- allusion
- any literature that is not poetry
- prose
- a story that is true
- nonfiction
- inanimate objects take on human characteristics
- personification
- the use of corresponding sytactical forms
- parallelism
- when the audience or the reader knows something important that the characters do not know
- dramatic irony
- regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
- meter
- a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
- onomatopoeia
- contrast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens
- situational irony
- an account of a writer's own life
- autobiography
- a metrical foot or unit of measure consisting of an unstressed sylloable followed by a stressed syllable
- iambic
- making someone else think like you think
- persuasion
- repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
- alliteration
- rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations
- poetry
- the series of related events that make up a story
- plot
- writing that ridicules a person, group of people, humanity, social institution, etc. in order to reveal a weakness
- satire
- when and where a work takes place
- setting