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20-1 Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A causal and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event: If you take his parking place, you can expect World War II all over again. Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. --Richard Cushing |
| Simile | A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two things essentially unlike. The comparison is made explicit by the use of some such word or phrase as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems. |
| Irony | A situation, or a use of language, involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy. Three kinds of irony are distinguished: Verbal, Dramatic and Situational |
| Pathetic Fallacy | Unlike the idea of personification, pathetic fallacy is the expression of humans/societies condition through natural disaster. |
| Metaphor | A comparison that imaginatively identifies one thing with another dissimilar thing.Unlike a simile or analogy, metaphor asserts that one thing is another thing, not just that one is like another. |
| Paradox | A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements, a figure of speech in which an apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object, or a concept. |
| Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply. |
| Aside | Words spoken by an actor sometimes a loud whisper which are heard by the audience, but are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on the stage. |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration used for emphasis. Hyperbole can be used to heighten effect, to catalyze recognition, or to create a humorous perception. |
| Synecdoche | it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole, or vice versa. |
| Equivocation | the art of misleading, usually through language. To conceal/avoid the truth in order to not out oneself. |
| Imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language. Paints a 'mind picture'. |
| Soliloquy | When a character speaks his deepest thoughts aloud to himself when he is alone, he speaks a soliloquy or he soliloquizes.This dramatic technique enables the audience to know what is going on in the “privacy” of a character’s mind. |
| Motif | A repeated pattern—an image, sound, word, or symbol that comes back again and again within a particular stor |
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