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Lit Terms for 9th
Literary Terms for 9th Grade PreAP/GT/Leadership English
| Word | Defenition |
|---|---|
| Abstract | not attached to anything specific or concrete. |
| Active Voice | verb that is an action. |
| Ad Hominem | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than the issue that is at hand. |
| Aesthetic | relating to beauty or to a branch of philosophy concerned with art, beauty, and taste. |
| Alliteration | repetition of similar sonsonant sounds in the beginning of words. |
| Allusion | a reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place or event. |
| Anachroism | the misplacement of a person, occurence, custom or idea in the time. |
| Anadiplosis | reptition of a word at the end of a phrase, sentemce, etc. which then begins the next phrase, clause, sentence, etc. |
| Analogy | a comparision between two things that are otherwise unlike. Often analogies draw a comparison between something abstract and something more concrete or easier to visualize. |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a 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. |
| Antecedent | What noun the pronoun is replacing |
| Antihero/Antiheroine | A protagonist who is not a good person |
| Antimetabole | Reversing the order of repeated words or phrases. |
| Antithesia | parallelism whith contradictory ideas. |
| Aporia | expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say, do. |
| Aposiopesis | a sudden breaking off of speech, usually due to excitemenet (either positive or negative). |
| Apostrophe | directly addressing either a dead person or an inanimate object. |
| Appeals | methods used to gain facor in rhetoric or the dstablis tone. |
| Pathos/emotional appeals | appeals to audience's feeling and sympathies. |
| Logos/logical appeals | appeals to audince's brain/logical side. |
| Ethos/ethical appeals | attempts to sway readers by creating a positive impression. |
| Achetype | a theme, motif, symbol or stock character that holds a familiar place in a cuture's consiousness. |
| Assonance | repetition of similar vowel sounds in nearby words. |
| Asyndeton | the omission of conjuctions in a series. |
| Bathos | a sudden change frome extereme lighthearted to extreme sentiment. |
| Bildungsroman | a novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist. |
| Caricature | the author's exaggeration or disortion of certain traits or characteristics of an individual |
| Cacophony | an arrangement of harsh-sounding words. |
| Catharsis | a cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art. |
| Chiasmus | two phrases in which the syntax is the same but the placement of words is reversed. |
| Climax | a moment of greatest intensity in a text, or the major turning point in the plot. |
| Cliche | expressions that are used so frequently that they are not as powerful. |
| Colloquialism | an informal expression of slang, usually limited to a certain geographical area/culture. |
| Comic Relief | a character whose actions are comedic and break up tension. |
| Conceit | a far-fetched metaphor/simile. |
| Conflict | the problem a character faces. |
| Internal Conflict | problem within one's self. |
| External Conflict | outside problem - another person or perhaps a thing |
| Connotation | the emotional side of a word (implied meaning that it has). |
| Consonance | The repetition of consonants in a sequence of nearby words, especially at the end of stressed syllables or words when there is no similar repetition of vowel sounds. |
| Denotation | dictionary definition of a word. |
| Dues ex Machina | literally 'God in the machine.' It's when a character is saved by a miraculously or improbably event. Stems from Greek idea that the Gods would come in and rescue. |
| Diction | specific word choice used in a piece of writing, often chosen for effect but also for correctness and clarity. |
| Didactic | intended to instruct or to educate. |
| Ellipses | figure of speech in which a word or short phrase is omitted but easily understood form the context. |
| Epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that appeared at the beginning of the clause. |
| Epigraph | a quotation placed at the bginning of a piece of literature or at the beginning or one of its chapters or scenes to provide the reader with some ideas about the content or meaning to follow. |
| Epithet | an adjective or phrase that describes a prominent or distinguishing feature of a person or thing. |
| Epiphany | a sudden, powerful, and often spiritual or life-changing realization that a character reaches in an otherwise ordinary or every day moment. |
| Epistolary | a type of narration through letters. |
| Epistrophe | the repetition of the word or group of words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, versus or sentences. |
| Epizeuxis | repetition of the same word without any other words between them. |
| Euphemism | a nice way of saying unpleasant. |
| Euphony | a pleasing arrangement of sounds. |
| Eulogy | a formal statement of praise (usually said at funerals). |
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