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Lit Term Examples
Study the words for Briskey!!
| Term | Example |
|---|---|
| Allegory | George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm," where the animals on a farm represent different figures and events from the Russian Revolution |
| Alliteration | " The boy buzzed around as busy as a bee." "Polly's prancing pony performed perfectly." |
| Allusion | "He's the Einstein of our Generation." "He was a good Samaritan yesterday." |
| Antagonist | "President Coriolanus Snow." "Lord Voldemort." |
| Aside | "Hamlet says to the audience,'A little more than kin and less than kind.'" -The Truman show at the end. |
| Assonance | "His tender heir might bear his memory." |
| Direct Characterization | "Old man Humphrey never liked children, even when he himself was a child." " I am 37 years old." |
| Indirect Characterization | "John snapped at the man without warning." "My friend often displays childish and immature behavior when he doesn't get his way. |
| Chiasmus | "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate." "We shape our buildings, and afterward our buildings shape us." |
| Climax | When the hero saves the princess, discovers the buried treasure, or slays the dragon. |
| Conflict | -A man's girlfriend gets pregnant, but he isn't ready to be a father. |
| Crisis | -When Katniss's sister gets chosen as tribute, Katniss volunteers as tribute |
| Denouement | At the end of Romeo and Juliet, after Romeo and Juliet have killed themselves, Montague and the Capulets (Romeo and Juliet's parents) come to see their dead bodies. |
| Epiphany | "In the middle of a typical argument with his wife, a man realizes he has been the one causing every single argument, and that in order to keep his marriage, he must stop being such an aggressive person ." |
| Figure of Speech | Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Paradox, Oxymoron |
| Foil | Elsa struggles to connect emotionally, fearful of the world, Meanwhile Anna is sure of herself and wants to foster a stronger bond with her sister |
| Foreshadowing | In the Titanic, Jack says "Tell you the truth, I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold.", at the end of the movie he dies to hypothermia. |
| Gothic | Dracula and Frankenstein |
| Hyperbole | "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" "That bag weighs a ton" |
| Incongruity | A cat at a dog's birthday party A Fish Out Of Water A Snowman in The Desert |
| Verbal Irony | When there's a hurricane raging outside and someone remarks "what lovely weather we're having." |
| Dramatic Irony | Romeo believes Juliet to be dead after she takes a sleeping potion to fake her death, leading to his tragic suicide. |
| Situational Irony | A firefighter afraid of fire A pilot has a fear of heights The teacher failed the test |
| Litotes | "Not bad" She's not ugly" "You are not wrong." |
| Metaphor | "The classroom was a zoo" "A heart of gold" "The world is a stage" |
| Motif | A repeated quote, an object, or a theme that helps establish the theme or mood |
| Onomatopoeia | BOOM!! BAMM!!! POWWW! |
| Oxymoron | "Alone Together "Exact Estimate" "Small crowd" |
| Paradox | "You have to spend money to make money" "The more you know, the more you know you don't know" |
| Personification | "The lights winked" "The wind howled" |
| Rhyme | "Cat-Hat","Rotten-Forgotten","Heard-Bird." |
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