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Literary Terms C1
English 10
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event or idea in history or literature. Cultural experience shared by reader and writer | allusion |
| allows for 2 or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation | ambiguity |
| idea or expression that has become tired from overuse. Sign of a bad writer | cliché |
| associations and implications that go beyond the litteral meaning of a word. positive or negative | connotation |
| the dictionary meaning of a word | denotation |
| explains figurative language. longer than the original work | explication |
| smooths out figurative language. shorter or longer than the original work | paraphrase |
| a fictional narrator | persona |
| The voice used by the author to tell a story. May be almost identical to the poet | speaker |
| The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses and sentences. Poets manipulate it to place emphasis on certain words | syntax |
| voice | |
| The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author's style | tone |
| The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. Unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. Not the subject | theme |
| A writer's choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning | diction |
| Plain language of everyday use, and often includes idiomatic expressions, slang, contradictions, and many simple, common words | informal diction |
| maintains correct language usage, but is not the most formal | middle diction |
| Refers to the way poets sometimes employ an elevated diction that deviates significantly from the common speech and writing of their time, choosing words for their supposedly inherent poetic qualities | poetic diction |
| special vocabulary of any professional world | jargon |
| a set phrase constantly said that carries a political or social meaning | cant |
| special vocabulary of the criminal world | argot |
| designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson | didactic |
| designed to show, entertain, or represent | mimetic |
| a type of lyric poem in which a character (the speaker) adresses a distinct but silent audience imagined to be present in the poem in such a way as to reveal a dramatic situation and, often unintentionally, some aspect of their temperament or personality | dramatic monologue |
| long narrative poem, told in a formal, elevated style, that focuses on a serious subject and chronicles heroic deeds and events important to a culture or nation | epic |
| a type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. 1st person, not necessarily the poet | lyric |
| a poem that tells a story | narrative poem |
| any poem with a rhyme every 2 lines | couplet |
| in poetry, stanza refers to a grouping of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme | stanza |
| a 3 line stanza, ABA BCB CDC DED | triplet |
| 3 lines that rhyme | triplet |
| 4 line stanza | quatrain |
| 5 line stanza | quintain |
| 6 line stanza | sestet |
| 8 line stanza | octave |
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