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Literary Terms
Literary terms
| Question Parallelism | Answer |
|---|---|
| Parallelism | Using similar grammatical structures to state things of equal importance. |
| Dramatic Irony | Occurs when the audience knows something that the characters in the play do not know |
| Rhetorical Questions | A question that does not require an answer |
| Epistrophe | Using the same ending on several phrases or clauses. |
| Allusion | A reference that most people will recognize to something from history, literature, the Bible, or mythology |
| Personification | Giving human characteristics to something that is not human. |
| Logos | An appeal to reason or logic |
| Flashback | Recalling something that happened in the past before the story started. |
| Symbolism | Something that is literal in the story but also has meaning beyond the story. |
| Ethos | An appeal to the credibility of the author--his ethics. |
| Characterization | The way an author creates characters by giving them certain qualities |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that directly compares two things by saying one is the other...Her eyes were sapphires. |
| Imagery | All of the concrete detail or pictures that the author puts in a pieces of writing. Anything that causes the reader to see a picture in his/her head is imagery. |
| Protagonist | The hero or main character in a story |
| Pathos | An appeal to emotion in rhetoric |
| Point of view | The eyes through which the story is told. |
| Repetition | A word or phrase that is mentioned over and over for emphasis |
| Anaphora | Repeating the first few words in successive phrases or clauses. |
| First Person point of view | The story is told using "I" and "Me" |
| Alliteration | Repetition of beginning consonant sound...Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck |
| Foreshadowing | Hints of what is to come later in the story |
| Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Conflict | The struggle between opposing forces |
| Third Person point of view | The story is told using "he," "she," or "they. |
| Diction | Word Choice |
| Epilogue | A summing up after the story |
| Pun | A play on words |
| Paradox | A seemingly contradictory statement that is true |
| Climax | The turning point of the play |
| Setting | The time and place of the story |
| Prologue | The part before the play starts setting up the play. |
| Rising Action | Takes place in Act II when the conflict or complications begin |
| Theme | The universal or underlying meaning that the author wants you to understand |
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