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LiteracyTermsEnglish
Literary terms for English 9H
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| epic poem | a long narrative poem telling of a epic hero's deed |
| epic hero | a main character in an epic whose legendary or heroic actions are central to his/her culture, race or nation |
| epic simile | a simile developed over several lines of a verse |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name |
| pun | joke that comes from a play on worlds, puns can make use of multiple meanings, or of a word's rhyme |
| soliloquy | speech character gives when he or she is alone on stage. Its purpose is to let the audience know how the character is feeling |
| simile | figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using like or as |
| foil | character that highlights, through sharp contrast, another character's personality or attitudes |
| aside | characters remark, either to the audience or to another character, that others strategically hear. It reveals the characters thoughts |
| personification | figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object,animal or idea |
| imagery | descriptive words or phrases that re-create sensory experience. (five senses) |
| paradox | statement that seems to contradict itself but is, nevertheless, true |
| oxymoron | a figure of speech in which two words of opposite meanings are used together for effect |
| iambic pentameter | lines that have 5 unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable |
| couplet | 2 rhymed lines in a row |
| foreshadowing | use of clues to suggest or hint at events that have not yet occurred |
| ethics | values or beliefs by which we live and and make decisions every day |
| metaphor | a figure of speech used to compare two different things as though they were the same |
| internal conflict | a struggle that a character has within himself ex: man v. self |
| external conflict | a character has a struggle with another character, society, animal or nature ex:man v. man, man v. society, man v. machine, man v. animal, man v. nature |
| setting | used to create a specific tone for a story |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
| theme | a central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work |
| irony | shows a contrast between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention. |
| verbal irony | words are purposefully used to suggest the opposite meaning |
| situational irony | an event occurs that is opposite of what is expected |
| dramatic irony | difference between what the character thinks and what the reader knows |
| characterization | method used by a writer to how the character looks, acts and thinks |
| integral setting | setting is important to the story |
| backdrop setting | setting is not important |
| historical setting | setting place in history |
| fanciful setting | setting is made up |
| exposition | beginning part of the story that tells the setting, and characters |
| rising action | events that lead up to the climax |
| climax | the most intense part of the story |
| culminating event | the turning point of the story |
| falling action | ends all conflicts |
| resolution | the end the story where the theme is presented |
| the end the story where the theme is presented | |
| dynamic character | character that undergoes a change |
| static character | character that remains the same throughout the story |
| alliteration | repetition of the same sound beginning 3 or more words in a row |
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