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Falls English Final
Literary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing |
| Aside | A short remark the audience can hear but the other characters on stage cannot |
| Bildungsroman | A story about the protagonist growing up |
| Character foil | A character that forms a strong contrast with another character |
| Epic | A long story told in poetry that tells about a larger-than-life hero |
| Epic hero | A larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
| Epithet | An adjective or descriptive term regularly used to describe a person |
| Flashback | Going “back in time” to tell events that happened earlier |
| Foreshadowing | The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later |
| Homeric simile | An extended comparison of two unlike things expanded in great detail |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses (sight, touch, taste, smell, sound) |
| In medias res | The technique of starting a story in the middle and using flashback to tell what happened earlier |
| Invocation to the muse | A prayer for inspiration to the god of epic poetry |
| Legend | A story handed down through the ages whose truth cannot be checked |
| Metaphor | Comparing two unlike things without using “like” or “as” |
| Mood | The feeling an author creates in a work |
| Motif | A word, character, image, symbol or metaphor that repeats in a work |
| Myth | A traditional story that is rooted in a particular culture, is basically religious, and explains a natural or human phenomenon |
| Personification | Describing something non-human with human characteristics |
| Simile | Comparing two unlike things using “like” or “as” |
| Soliloquy | A long speech that can be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage |
| Syntax | How words are put together in a sentence |
| Theme | The overall idea communicated by a work; the “moral of the story” |
| Tone | The apparent emotional state, or “attitude,” of the speaker or narrator |
| Tragedy | A play in which the main characters die because of their own faults |
| Vignette | A small decorative design or picture placed just before a title page or at the beginning or end of a chapter |
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