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10th Literary Terms
all 10th grade literary term to study my way
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Analogy | A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based Heat is to hot as honesty is to _______________. |
| Anecdote | A short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature. a brief story about something amusing or strange. |
| Antithesis | Opposition; contrast Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell |
| Bandwagon appeal | A bandwagon appeal is one that plays on target customers' loyalty in another direction. If you don't ____________ then The Terrorists win. |
| Bibliography | A complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, or printer. a list of an authors works |
| Biography | A written account of another person's life the biography of Byron by Marchand. |
| Carpe Diem | Used as an admonition to seize the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future. |
| Connotation | An idea that is implied or suggested |
| Crisis | An unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty |
| Diction | The manner in which something is expressed in words |
| Empathy | Understanding and entering into another''s feelings |
| Epilogue | A short passage added at the end of a literary work |
| Fiction | A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact |
| Figurative Lanugage | Speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech. |
| Flashback | A transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story |
| Gothic | A heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries |
| Imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events |
| Mood | a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling. |
| Name-‐calling Propaganda | the use of abusive names to belittle or humiliate another person in a political campaign, an argument, etc. |
| Narrative | consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story |
| Nemesis | something causes misery or death |
| Non-Fiction | something that is true |
| Paradox | a self-contradiction |
| Pathos | a quality that arouses emotions |
| Personification | giving something non-human human qualities |
| Point of view | the spatial property of the position from which something is observed |
| Prologue | an introduction to a play |
| Pun | a humorous play on words |
| Satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn |
| Setting | arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted |
| Simile | comparing two things with like, as, or than |
| situational irony | an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
| Stage Directions | an instruction written as part of the script of a play |
| Stream of consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual''s conscious experience |
| Symbolism | the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning |
| Thesis | an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument |
| Tone | a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color |
| tragic hero | the main character (or "protagonist") in a tragedy. |
| utopia | an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal |
| Villian | a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately |
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