Literary Terms from A-Z
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| onomatopoeia | Formation of a word by imitating the natural sound associated with the object or actions involved.
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| personification | To think of or represent (for example, and inanimate object) as a person.
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| plot | The organization of individual incidents in a narrative or play.
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| poem | A rhythmic expression of feelings or ideas, often using metaphor, meter, and rhyme.
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| prose | Literary expression not marked by rhyme or metrical regularity.
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| protagonist | The main character of a play, novel, or story, usually the hero.
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| Alliteration | the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words or at short intervals with in a line or passage, usually at word beginnings.
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| Antonym | Words that are opposite in meaning.
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| Couplet | Two seccessive lines of poetry with end-words that rhyme.
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| Haiku | A Japanese form of poetry, which gives a brief description of nature. Haiku consists of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
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| Homonym | Two or more words with the same pronunciation but with different meanings and spellings.
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| Homophone | Two or more words with the same pronunciation but with different meanings and spellings.
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| Limerick | a light or humorous verse form of five lines in which lines one, two, and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba
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| Metaphor | an association of two completely different objects as being the same thing
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| Simile | a comparison of two completely different objects using "like" or "as"
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| Synonym | one of two or more words that have the same or nearly the same meanings
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| Hyperbole | an exaggeration of the truth
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| Imagery | figurative language used to create particular mental images
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| Onomatopoeia | the use of words with sounds suggestive of their meaning, like buzz, clang, moo, whoosh.
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