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Literary Terms H-N
Literary Terms Beginning with H - N
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| haiku | An unrhymed poem form, originated by the Japanese, consisting of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables that record the essence of a moment. |
| hero | A character, often the protagonist, who exhibits qualities such as courage, idealism, and honesty. |
| high comedy | Comedy that is characterized by intellect or wit. |
| historical novel | A narrative that places fictional characters or events in historically accurate surroundings. |
| hyperbole | A deliberate overstatement or deliberate exaggeration in writing or speaking, used to create an effect. |
| iamb | A metrical foot that contains one short or unstressed syllable preceding one long or stressed syllable. |
| iambic pentameter | Poetry consisting of five parts per line, each part having one short or unstressed syllable and one long or stressed syllable. |
| imagery | Figurative language used to evoke particular mental pictures. |
| irony | An expression of a meaning that contradicts the literal meaning. |
| literature | Novels, stories, poems, and plays of high standards that entertain, inform, stimulate, or provide aesthetic pleasure. |
| low comedy | Humorous material that employs physical actions or jokes of questionable taste. |
| malapropism | A mistaken substitution of one word for another that sounds similar, generally with humorous effect. |
| metaphor | The comparison of two unlike objects without using “like” or “as”. |
| meter | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
| motif | A theme, character, or verbal pattern that recurs in literature or folklore. |
| myth | A legend, usually made up in part of historical events, that helps define the beliefs of a people and that often has evolved as an explanation for rituals and natural phenomena. |
| nonfiction | A historically accurate narrative. |
| novel | A long work of fictional prose. |
| novella | A short novel; also, the early tales of short stories of French and Italian writers. |
| Flash Back | an interruption in the progress of a story |
| humor | Expresses what is funny or amusing |
| imagination | forming mental pictures of what does not actually exist |
| inference | a reasonable conclusions drawn from clues provided by the writer |
| mood | the feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader |
| onomatopoeia | a writing technique that uses words to imite sounds |
| personification | a figure of speech that gives human qualities |
| repetition | a writing technique in which a workd or phrase is repeatd to give special emphasis |
| RHYMING couplets | two lines of poetry in sequence that have rhyming end words |
| RHYTHM | THE PATTERN OR BEAT |
| sequence | a series fo events in the order in which the events actually occur |
| setting | the time and place of the action of a story |
| short story | a work of fiction that can be read in one sitting |
| stanza | refers to th evoice that talks in a poem |
| suspense | the excitement a reader feels about the outcome |
| symbol | an object or idea that has its own meaning but is used to suggest a different meaning |
| tale | a story that has been passed down orally through generations |
| theme | the main idea |
| climax | the high point |
| tall tale | wildly exaggerated stories about characters such as pecos bill and paul bunyan |
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