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Literary Terms 101
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The kind of writing that is intended primarily to present information. | exposition |
| language that is not intended to be interpretted in a literal sense | Figurative language |
| A scene in a short story, a novel, a narrative poem, or a play that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier. | Flashback |
| A unit used to measuer the meter of a line of poetry. | Foot |
| The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come. | forshadowing |
| A narrative that contains another narrative | Frame story |
| unrhymed verse that has either no metrical pattern or irregular pattern | free verse |
| A term that describes the use in fiction in grotesque, gloomy settings and mysterious, violent, and supernatural occurences to create suspense and awe | gothic |
| A japanese verse form consisting of 3 lines and 17 syllables. | Haiku |
| A flowing of black writing, art, and music in the 1920's. | Harlem renaissance |
| A figure of speech using exaggeration using special effect | Hyperbole |
| A poetic foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. | Iamb |
| The most common verse line in english and American poetry; it consists of 5 feet, with each foot an iamb. | Iambic pentameter |
| Words or phrases that create pictures, or images in the readers mind. | Imagery |
| A movement in english and american poetry begun in 1912 by american poet Ezra Pound; uses direct concentration on the precise image. | Imagism |
| A contrast or incongruity between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens. | Irony |
| The writer or speaker says one thing but means the other. | Verbal irony |
| The reader or audience perceives somthing that a character in the story or play doesnt know. | Dramatic irony |
| The writer shows a discrepancy between the expected result of some action or situation and its actual result. | Irony of situation |
| The use of specific details describing dialect, dress, customs, and scenery associated with a particular region or section of the country. | Local color |
| A poem, usually a short one, that expressed a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings. | Lyric |
| A figure of speech that makes a comparison between 2 things that are basically dissimilar. | Metaphor |
| A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. | Meter |
| A figure of speech in which somthing very closely associated with a thing is used to stand for or suggest the thing itself. | Metonymy |
| The prevailing feeling or emotional climate of a literary work, often developed, at least in part, through descriptions of setting. | Mood |
| A recurring feature (Such as a name, an image, or a phrase) in a work of literature. | Motif |
| A poem that tells a story | Narrative poem |
| An extreme form of realism in which the character is controled by his hereditary or environment. | Naturalism |
| An 8 line poem or stanza | Octave |
| A complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. | Ode |
| The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning. | Onomatopoeia |
| A figure of speec hthat combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms, as in "Sweet Sorrow," "Wise Fool," "Living Death," and "Honest Theif." | Oxymoron |
| a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first self-contradictory or untrue | paradox |
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