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Literary terms set 5
Honors English 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Character | A person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story. |
| Characterization | The act of creating and describing characters in literature. |
| Understatement | A literary device by which a particular quality of a person, object, emotion, or situation is downplayed or presented as being less than what is true to the situation |
| Connotation | A feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning. |
| Denotation | The objective meaning of a word. |
| Archetype | In novel terms is a type of character who represents a universal pattern, and therefore appeals to our human 'collective unconscious'. |
| Euphemism | A word or phrase that softens an uncomfortable topic. |
| Cliche | Can refer to any aspect of a literary narrative—a specific phrase, scenario, genre, or character. |
| Consonance | Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions. |
| Paradox | A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. |
| Assonance | The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in a series of words, phrases, and/or syllables. |
| Allegory | A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. |
| Propaganda | Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
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