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American Lit B Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Characterization | The methods used by an author to portray or develop a character. |
| Theme | A story's view about life and human behavior. |
| Figurative Language | Using or containing a nonliteral sense of a word or words. |
| Analogy | A literal comparison made between two items, situations, or ideas that are somewhat alike but unlike in most respects. |
| Metaphor | A direct comparison of two normally unlike things. |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using "Like" or "As". |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to something that is not human. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving great exaggeration. |
| Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
| Couplet | A pair of lines (back-to-back) which rhyme. |
| Free verse | A type of poetry written with rhythm and other poetic devices but without a fixed pattern or rhyme. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sound. |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words. |
| Internal Rhyme | The rhyming of words within a line of poetry. |
| Slant Rhyme | A forced rhyme; the sounds of the words are similar but not identical. |
| Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual order of the parts of a sentence, primarily for emphasis or to achieve a certain rhythm or rhyme. |
| Refrain | The repetition of one or more lines in each stanza of a poem. |
| Point of View | The point of view from which the story is told. |
| Tone | The way somebody says something as an indicator of what that person is feeling or thinking. |
| Diction | The author's choice of words or phrases in a literary work. |
| Mood | The feeling(s) or emotions that a story inspires in the reader(how a story makes the reader feel). |
| Foreshadowing | Giving the reader a hint or hints of what is to come later in the story. |
| Allusion | An implicit reference to a historical, literary, or biblical character, event, or element. |
| Maxim | A brief saying embodying a moral; a general rule, principle, or truth. |
| Parable | A brief fictional work that concrete illustrates an abstract idea or teaches some lesson or truth. |
| Paradox | A statement that seems to be self-contradictory but which has a valid meaning. |
| Consonance | Refers to repetition of sounds in quick succession. |
| Epigram | A short poem or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or event, usually with witticism or sarcasm. |
| Fable | A brief story illustrating human tendencies through animal characters. |
| Novel | A fictional prose narrative of considerable length, typically having a plot that is unfolded by the actions, speech, and thoughts of the characters. |
| Prose | A form of language that has no formal metrical structure. |
| Satire | A technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. |
| Style | The distinctive way that a writer uses language including such factors as word choice, sentence length, arrangement, and complexity, and the use of figurative language and imagery. |
| Vernacular | The speech of the "common people". |
| Verse | A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry. |
| Irony | The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. |
| Local Color | Distinctive, sometimes picturesque characteristics or peculiarities of a place or period as represented in literature or drama, or as observed in reality. |
| Inference | The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. |
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