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LTERMs
Arnetts Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Metaphor | figure of speech, comparing two things not using the words like or as. Ex. the blue-flies buzzed |
| Abstract | not attached to anything specific or conctrete Ex. one's thinking, or thoughts |
| Active Voice | verb that is an action(as opposed to passive voice). Ex. She sweeps the floor. |
| Ad Hominem | an arguement attacking an inividual's character rather than the issue. Ex. Candidates Posters. |
| Aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty and taste. Ex. You Tube, person who does makeup videos. |
| Allegory | a narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning. Ex. Animal Farm is an allegory for the Russian Revolution, using animals or something that represents something else. |
| Alliteration | repetiton of similar consonant sounds in the beginning of words. Ex. She goes down the seashore to sell seashells. |
| Allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place, or event. The reference to the Bible in the literary book A Tale of Two Cities |
| Anachronism | The misplacement of a person, occurrence, custom or idea in time. Example: in Julius Caesar, a character metions a watch. Watches did not exist in Ancient Rome(they only existed in the time of Shakespere. |
| Anadiplosis | repetion of a work at the end of a pharse, sentence, etc. which then begins the next phrase, clause, sentence etc. Ex. I ran to the store, the store had lots of fish. |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases and sentences. |
| antagonist | the person or obstacle that gets in the way of the protagonist's accomplishment of his/her goal. |
| anecdote | a brief narration of an event or person. ex. Aunt Joan loves to tell anecdotes of her childhood. |
| antecedent | what noun the pronoun is replacing. Ex. "i love reading. It makes me happy." The antecedent of "it" is "reading". |
| antihero/antiheroine | a protagonist who is not a good person. |
| analogy | a comparsion between two things that are otherwise unlike. Often analogies draw a comparsion between something abstract and something more concrete |
| antimetabole | reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (ex. all work and no playis as harmful to mental helth as all play and no work. |
| antithesis | parallelism with contradictory ideas. Ex. it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. |
| aporia | expression of doubt(often frigned by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do. |
| aposiopesis | a sudden breaking off of speech, usually due to excitement(either positive or negative) |
| apostrophe | directly addresing either a dead person or an inanimate object. |
| appeals | methods authors use to gain favor in rhetoric, or to established tone. |
| Pathos/emotional appeals | appeals to audience's feelings and sympathies |
| Logos/logical appeals | appeals to audience's brain/logical side |
| Ethos/ethical Appeals | attempts to sway readers by creatign a positive impression of her/his character |
| archetype | a theme, motif. symbol or stock character that holds a familiar place in culture's consciousness (ex. knight in shining armor, villain, the sidekick, the Garden of Eden) |
| assonance | repetition of similsar vowel sounds in nearby words |
| asyndenton | omission of conjunctions in a series. Ex. On my desk are pens, books, papers, exams. The omission of the conjuction emphasizes quality. |
| bathos | a sudden cahnge from ectreme lighthearted to extreme sentiment. |
| bildungsroman | a novel avout the education of psychological growth of the protagonist. |
| caricature | the author's exaggeration or distortion of certain traits or characteristics of an individual. Charles Dickens' characters are often caricatures. |
| cacophony | an attangement of harsh-sounding words - kill, crack, create, danger, cupcake. |
| catharsis | a cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art |
| chiasmus | tro phrases in which the syntax is the same, but the placement of words is recersed. Example: "life imitates art far morethat art imitates life." |
| climax | the moment of greatest intensity in a text, or the major turning point in the plot |
| cliche | expressions that are used so frequently that thet're not as powerful. Ecample She decided to turn ocer a new leaf. |
| collowuialism | an informal expression or slang, usually limites to a vertain fergraohical area/culture. Ex Y' all vs. you guys, soda vs. pop, sneakers vs. tennis shoes vs. trainers. |
| comic relief | a chatacter whose actions are comedic and breakup tension. |
| conceit | the problem a character faces |
| internal 'conflict' | problem within oneself |
| external 'conflict' | outside problem - another person or perhaps a thing |
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