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Literary Terms
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| Word | Definition | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Allusion | reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing | He met his waterloo. |
| Antithesis | juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast | Sink or Swim |
| Apostrophe | form of personification in which the absent are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate, these are all addressed directly | Milthm! Thou should'st be living at this hour. |
| Assonance | repetition of accented VOWEL sounds | 'crY' and 'sIde' are said to be assonance |
| Flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event | Nonlinear plot |
| Figures of Speech | words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else | Simile, Personification, and Metaphore |
| Consonance | repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect | And each slow Dusk a Drawing Down of the blinds. |
| Details | facts revealed by the speaker or author that supports the altitude or tone in a piece of writing | |
| Diction | word choice intended for a certain affect | |
| Metaphore | a comparison of two unlike things not using 'like' or 'as' | |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in a narrative that suggest future action | |
| Imagery | consists of words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, and ideas descriptively by appealing tp the senses | |
| Verbal Irony | when a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning another | |
| Situational Irony | when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect | |
| Dramatic Irony | when a character or speaker says or does something that has a different meaning from what he or she thinks it means though the audience and other characters understand the full implications | |
| Mood | the atmosphere or predominate emotion in literary work | |
| Motivation | a circumstance or set of circumstances that prompts a character to act in a certain way | |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words to mimic the sounds they describe | BAM! CRASH! SIZZLE! |
| Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression | Bitter Sweet, Icy Hot |
| Paradox | occurs when elements of a statement contradict each other- reveals a hidden truth | |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics | |
| Plot | the sequence of events or actions in a work | |
| Point Of View | the perspective from which a narrative is told | First Person, Second Person, Third Person Limited, Third Person Omniscient, |
| Prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry | |
| Alliteration | beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound | The Twisting Trout Trinkled below. |
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