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Literary Terms
Maddie ELA
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| rhetoric | the art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse |
| pun | a play on words based on different meaning of words that sound alike |
| paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but that expresses a truth |
| parody | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writers syle |
| indirect characterization | the author reveals to the reader what the character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses , by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character's private thoughts and feelings and their effect on people. |
| direct characterization | the author tells us explicitly what the character is like: sneaky, generous, mean to pets and so on. Romantic style literature replied more heavily on this form. |
| Dynamic character | one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action |
| Static character | one who does not change much in the course of a story. |
| diction | a speaker or writer's choice of words |
| foil | a character who is contrasted with another character |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times..." |
| First person point o view | one of the characters tells the story |
| third person point of view | an all-knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters. |
| Tone | the writer's attitude towards his/her audience and subject |
| Theme | the central message about life revealed through the literary work |
| allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities |
| connotation | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with a main character or protagonist |
| couplet | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry |
| verbal irony | occurs when someone says on thing but really means something else |
| situational irony | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what should be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen. |
| dramatic irony | its so called because it is often used on stage. A character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better. |
| motif | a reoccurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme. |
| motivation | the reasons for a character's behavior |
| allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.) |
| external conflict | conflicts between two people, between a person and nature, or between a person and a whole society. |
| internal conflict | a conflict involving opposing forces with a person's mind |
| assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. |
| figurative language | words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms. |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense "Pop, Zap, Yeet" |
| Flashback | scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time. |
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Mrs. Didelot
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