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LITERATURE TERMS A-A
CARMALT - Random Terms & First Letter "A"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| giving something human-like qualities | PERSONIFICATION |
| rhyming that occurs at the end of a rhyme | END RHYME |
| atmosphere, feeling, or emotional state that is revealed through description, setting, characterization, and specific diction | MOOD |
| great exaggeration | HYPERBOLE |
| matching similarity of sounds in two or more words or word endings | RHYME |
| helps to establish stanzaic form by marking the ends of lines and contributes to the sense of unity in a poem | RHYME |
| Edgar Allan Poe called this a "brief prose tale" since the plot funtions as the engine driving the writing | SHORT STORY |
| when a character sees something from their own perspective | POINT OF VIEW |
| sudden moment when memories come back to a character | FLASHBACK |
| villain of the story | ANTAGONIST |
| prose narrative that is shorter than a novel but longer than a short story | NOVELLA |
| hero or main character of a story | PROTAGONIST |
| analogy or comparison of two unlike things implied by using an adverb such as "like" or "as" | SIMILE |
| analogy or comparison of two unlike things implied by saying outright one thing "is" another thing | METAPHOR |
| the way a writer conveys the attitude about particular characters and subject matter - Example: rise from poverty through hard work and greed versus rise from poverty through hard work and charity | TONE |
| time and place where story happens | SETTING |
| writing that creates a clear image usually by using details that appeal to our senses | DESCRIPTIVE |
| words that describe what they sound like | ONOMATOPOEIA |
| contrast between what is expected and what actually happens | IRONY |
| saying one thing and meaning another; sarcasm | VERBAL IRONY |
| most important type of literature irony - when the reader knows what fate holds in a story but the character expects the opposite | DRAMATIC IRONY |
| accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as"poetic justice" of a pickpocket getting his own pocket picked. | SITUATIONAL IRONY (COSMIC IRONY) |
| the struggle that drives the plot | CONFLICT |
| struggle between a character and another character or a force of nature or social demands | EXTERNAL CONFLICT |
| struggle within a character such as emotions, addiction, beliefs, fears | INTERNAL CONFLICT |
| idea about life revealed in a work of literature | theme |
| what happens in a story | PLOT |
| patterns of rhymes in a poem | RHYME SCHEME |
| casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature without explicitly identifying it | ALLUSION |
| short piece of writing usually told by the author | ESSAY |
| speech between characters | DIALOGUE |
| clues that suggest events that will happen later | FORESHADOW |
| word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else that is different from it in order to achieve some special meaning or effect | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (FIGURE OF SPEECH) |
| anxiety the reader feels about what will happen next in a story | SUSPENSE |
| word formed from the initial letters of a phrase | ACRONYM |
| poem in which the first or last letters of each line form a word, phrase, or sentence | ACROSTIC POEM |
| major divisions in a play | ACT |
| type of novel in which exciting events and fast paced action are more important than character development or theme | ADVENTURE NOVEL |
| having different parts of a sentence agree with each other in number, gender, mood, or verb tense | AGREEMENT |
| writing that has a double meaning- for example, person,ideas, or events represent themselves but also have a symbolic meaning. | ALLEGORY |
| an acrostic poem of 13 lines which each line consists of 2 words, each word beginning with sequential letters in the alphabetic pattern ABCDEF... | ALPHABET POEM |
| atmosphere or mood of a particular setting or location | AMBIANCE |
| a vague or unclear expression when precise or exact expression would be more useful | AMBIGUITY |
| Thomas Jefferson would refer to this as "life, liberty, an pursuit of happiness" but in American literature and film it expresses reaching goals of of material wealth and success, especially in regard to immigrants and "rags to riches" | AMERICAN DREAM |
| open-air theater like Shakespeare's Globe | AMPHITHEATER |
| placing an event, person, item, or oral expression in the wrong historical period - Example: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar refers to a clock striking three when there were no household clocks during Ancient Rome | ANACHRONISM |
| letters or syllables in a name, word, or phrase are jumbled to form a new name, word, or phrase | ANAGRAM |
| story that contains similar characters, situations, or settings that are also found in a different story, such as Romeo & Juliet like Westside Story | ANALOGUE |
| short narrative account of an amusing or interesting event | ANECDOTE |
| literature that encourages racist attitudes toward Jews | ANTI-SEMITIC LITERATURE |
| model or pattern from which other copies are made; a character, action or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life - include a symbol, theme, setting or character that have common meaning in a culture. Ex: Srooge equals grouchy | ARCHETYPE |
| repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words; can lead to half-rhyme; ie: neck & met | ASSONANCE |
| the person reading a text, listening to a speaker, or observing a performance | AUDIENCE |
| non-fictional account of one's own life | AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
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