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Literary Terms

TermDefinition
Alliteration The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are very close together
Allusion A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science
Atmosphere The overall mood or emotion of a work of literature
Autobiography The story of a person's life, written or told by that person
Biography The story of a real person's life, written or told by another person
Character A person or animal who takes part in action of a story, play, or other literary work
Conflict A struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces
Connotation The feelings and associations that a word suggests
Denotation The literal, dictionary definition of a word
Description The kind of writing that creates a clear image of something, usually by using the details that appeal to one or more of the senses
Dialect A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people
Dialogue A conversation between two or more characters
Drama A story written to be acted for an audience
Essay A short piece of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject
Fable A brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral or gives a practical lesson about how to get along in life
Fiction A prose account that is made up rather than true
Figure of Speech A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true
Flashback An interruption in the action of a plot to tell what happened at an earlier time
Folk Tale A story with no known author that originally was passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth
Foreshadowing The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot
Free Verse Poetry without a regular meter or a rhyme scheme
Imagery Language that appeals to the senses
Irony In general, a contrast between expectation and reality
Main Idea The most important idea expressed in a paragraph or in an entire essay
Metamorphosis A marvelous change from one shape to another one
Metaphor An imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to another thing
Mood The overall emotion created by a work of literature
Myth A story that explains something about the world that typically involves gods and other superhuman beings
Nonfiction Prose writing that deals with real people events, and places, without changing any facts
Novel A Fictional story that is usually more than one hundred book pages long
Onomatopeia The use of words whose sounds echo their sense
Personification A figure of speech in which a nonliving thing or quality is talked about as if it were human or alive
Plot The series of related events that make up a story: introduction, conflict, complications, climax, and the resolution
Poetry A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination
Point of View The vantage point from which a story is told
Refrain A group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech
Rhyme The repetition of accented accented vowel sounds following them in words close together in a poem
Rhythm A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns
Short Story A fictional prose narrative that is usually ten to twenty book pages
Simile A comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than or resembles
Speaker The voice talking in a poem
Stanza In a poem a group of consecutive lines that forms a single unit
Symbol A person, place, a thing, or an event that has its own meaning ans stands for something beyond itself as well
Tall Tale A exaggerated, fanciful story that gets "taller and taller," more and more far-fetched, the more is told and retold
Theme The truth about life revealed in a work of literature
Tone The attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
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