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lit terms 1231241
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. |
| Attiture | A speaker’s, author, or character’s disposition toward or opinion of a subject. |
| Details (choice of details) | Items or parts that make up a larger picture of story. |
| Devices of Sound | The techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. |
| Diction | Word choice |
| Figurative Language | Writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and irony. |
| Imagery | The images of a literary work; the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work. |
| Irony | A figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ, characteristically praise for blame or blame for praise; a pattern of words that turns away from direct statement of its own obvious meaning. |
| metaphor | A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of a comparative term like “as”, “like”, “than.” |
| Narrative techniques | The methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts. |
| Omniscient Point of View | The vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses. |
| Point of View | Any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told. |
| Resources of Language | A general phrase for the linguistic devices or techniques that a writer can use. |
| Rhetorical Techniques | The devices used in effective or persuasive language. |
| Satire | Writing that seeks to arouse a reader’s disapproval of an object by ridicule. |
| Setting | The background to a story; the physical location of a play, story, or novel. |
| Simile | A directly expressed comparision; a figure of speech comparing two objects, usually with “like,” “as,” or “than.” |
| Strategy (or Rhetorical Strategy) | The management of language for a specific effect. Structure – The arrangement of materials within a work; the relationship of the parts of a work to the whole; the logical divisions of work. |
| Style | The mode of expression in language; the characteristic manner of expression of an author. |
| Symbol | Something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else. |
| Syntax | The structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. |
| Theme | The main thought expressed by a work |
| Tone | The manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude; the intonation of the voice that expresses meaning. |
| Allegory | A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning. |
| Ambiguity | Multiple meanings a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible. |
| Apostrophe | Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present. |
| Connotation | The implications of a word or phrase, as opposed to its exact meaning. |
| Convention | A device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression. |
| Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation |
| Didactic | Explicitly instructive. |
| Digression | The use of material unrelated to the subject of a work. |
| Epigram | A pithy saying, often using contrast |
| Euphemism | A figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness. |
| Grotesque | Characterized by distortions or incongruities |
| Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration, overstatement. |
| Jargon | The special language of a profession or group. |
| Literal | Not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete. |
| Lyrical | Songlike; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination |
| Oxymoron | A combination of opposites; the union of contradictory items |
| Parable | A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. |
| Paradox | A statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true |
| Parody | A composition that imitates the style of another composition that imitates the style of another composition normally for comic effect. |
| Personification | A figurative use of language that endows the nonhuman with human characteristics. |
| Reliability | A quality of some fictional narrators whose word the reader can trust. |
| Rhetorical Question | A question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply. |
| Soliloquy | A speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud |
| Stereotype | A conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea. |
| Syllogism | A form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them |
| Thesis | The theme, meaning, or position that a writer undertakes to prove or support. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words. |
| Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. |
| Ballad Meter | A four-line stanza rhymed abcb with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Dactyl | A metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. |
| End-stopped | A line with a pause at the end |
| Free Verse | Poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical |
| Heroic Couplet | Two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit |
| Hexameter | A line containing six feet. |
| Iamb | A two syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable |
| Internal Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words whose suggests their meaning. |
| Pentameter | line containing five feet. |
| Rhyme Royal | A seven-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhymed ababbcc. |
| Sonnet | Normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem |
| Stanza | Usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter rhyme scheme. |
| Terza Rima | A three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc. |
| Tetrameter | A line of four feet |
| Antecedent | That which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. |
| Clause | A group of words containing a subject and its verb that may or may not be a complete sentence |
| Ellipsis | The omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable. |
| Imperative | The mood of a verb that gives an order |
| Modify | To restrict or limit in meaning. |
| Parallel Structure | A similar grammatical structure within a sentence or within a paragraph. |
| Periodic Sentence | A sentence grammatically complete only at the end. |
| Sarcasam | a sharply ironical taunt |
| Verbal Irony | figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
| Dramatic Irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
| overstatement | exaggeration |
| metonymy | a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “the bottle” for “strong drink" |
| olfactory | of or pertaining to the sense of smell |
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