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Literary Terms #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dramatic Irony | a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true |
| Epiphany | a sudden understanding or realization which prior to this was not thought of or understood |
| Euphemism | a device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasantness |
| Extended Metaphor | It differs from a regular in that several comparisons are made and are extended throughout the passage. |
| First-Person Narrator | A character in a story who is telling the story; readers see only what this character sees, hears, etc. |
| Figurative Language | writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally |
| Flashback | a section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time |
| Foreshadowing | the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| Hubris | derived from the Greek word hybris, means “excessive pride.” In Greek tragedy, hubris is often viewed as the flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero. |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
| Imagery | the descriptive of figurative language used in literature to appeal to one or more of the five senses |
| Inversion | a change in the normal word order. Instead of “I have never seen such a mess,” one might write: “Never have I seen such a mess.” This is a device in which typical sentence patterns are reversed to create an emphatic or rhythmic effect |
| Irony | the general name given to literary techniques that involve differences between: a. appearances and reality b. expectation and result c. meaning and intention |
| Literal Language | uses words in their ordinary senses (the opposite of figurative language) |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things not using “as,” “like,” “than,” or “resembles |
| Monologue | a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem in which he/she has listeners who do not speak |
| Mood | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Motif | a simple device that serves as a basis for an expanded narrative . . . The motif is a recurring feature in the work. |
| Narrator | a speaker or character who tells a story . . . He/She may be either a character in the story or an outside observer. |
| Omniscient Narrator | an all-knowing 3rd person narrator . . . This type of narrator can reveal to readers what the characters think and feel. |
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