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FMS Literary Terms
Literary Terms for Mrs. Nolan's class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Language that appeals to the senses | Imagery |
| Object or animal takes on human qualities | Personification |
| A play on words, 2 words sound a like but have different meanings | Pun |
| Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together | Alliteration |
| Comparison between 2 unlike things, using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles | Simile |
| A brief story told to illustrate a point | Anecdote |
| Words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning | Onomatopoeia |
| Comparison between 2 things that are a like | Analogy |
| Imaginative comparison between 2 unlike things in which one this is said to be another | Metaphor |
| Words or phrases that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true | Figure of speech |
| A meaning, association, or emotion suggested by a word, in addition to its dictionary definition, or denotation | Connotation |
| An exaggerated, far-fetched story that is obviously untrue but is told as thought it should be delivered. | Tall tale |
| A work of literature meant to be performed for an audience by actors | Drama |
| A long fictional story whose length is usually between 100 and 500 pages. | Novel |
| A kind of writing to persuade a reader. | Persuasion |
| A prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places. | Nonfiction |
| A prose account that is made up rather than true. | Fiction |
| All writings that are not poetry. | Prose |
| A brief story told in prose or poetry that contains a moral, a practical lesson about how to get along in life. | Fable |
| A story of extraordinary deeds handed down every other generation. | Legend |
| The kind of writing that explains or gives information | Exposition |
| A story that explains something about the world and typically involves gods or other supernatural forces. | Myth |
| A play, novel, or other narrative in which the main character comes to an unhappy ending | Tragedy |
| A song or songlike poem that tells a story | Ballad |
| A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations. | Poetry |
| A story that has an unknown author and was originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth. | Folk tale |
| A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well | Symbol |
| A contrast between expectation and reality | Irony |
| A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | Meter |
| The way a writer uses language | Style |
| The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals | Theme |
| The writing that ridicules something, often in order to bring about change | Satire |
| A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns | Rhythm |
| The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot | Foreshadowing |
| The main character in a work of literature | Protagonist |
| An expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from its literal meanings of the words | Idiom |
| The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem | Rhyme |
| A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines | Refrain |
| A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit | Stanza |
| The vantage point from which a story is told | Point of view |
| A very short humorous or nonsensical poem | Limerick |
| The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience | Tone |
| An interruption in the present action of a plot to show events that happened at an earlier time | Flashback |
| Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science. | Allusion |
| The time and place of a story, play, or narrative poem | Setting |
| The series of related events that make up a story | Plot |
| Point in a story that creates the greatest amount of suspense or interest | Climax |
| A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces in a story | Conflict |
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