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Mr. Rose- Lit
Literary Terms
| Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| allegory | a literary work in which all or most of the characters, settings, and events symbolize ideas |
| alliteration | the repetion of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
| allusion | a reference in a wok of literature to a well-known person, place, event, written work, or work of art |
| analogy | a comparison based on a similarity between things that are otherwise dissimilar |
| assonance | the repetition of the some or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds |
| character | a personage in a narrative of drama |
| conflict | the central struggle between two opposing forces in a story or drama |
| denotation | the literal, or dictionary, them meaning of a word |
| dialogue | conversation between characters in a literary work |
| fiction | a narrative in which situations and characters in a literary work |
| foil | a minor character whose attitudes, beliefs, and behavior differ significantly from those of a minor character |
| genre | a category or type of literature |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a oint, or envoke humor |
| irony | a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality |
| metaphor | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things to help readers perceive the first thing more vividly and suggest an underlying similarity between the two |
| narrative | writing that tells a story |
| narrator | the person who tells the story |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human qualities |
| plot | a sequence of events in a narrative work |
| apostrophe | a direct address to someone or something |
| aside | (blank) |
| Monologue | An extended speech by a single character, a solo speech to listeners. (different than solilogy) |
| Moral | a message or lesson implied or directly stated in a literary work. |
| Motif | An element that recurs throughout a narrative, or throughout several works. |
| Motivation | The reasons an author provides for a character's actions. Can either be explicit or or implicit. |
| Onomatopoeia | Literary device that attempts to represent a thing or action by the word that imitates the sound associated with it ex(crash, bang) |
| Persona | Latin word for "mask". A ficticious character the author uses to narrate a story. |
| Simile | Comparison of two things usually joined by like, as, than or a verb such as resembles. |
| Soliloguy | A speech by a character when they are alone on stage. Character says thoughts outloud. |
| Symbol | A person place or thing in a narrative that suggests meanings beyond its literal sense. |
| Synecdoche | The use of a significant part of a thing to stand for the whole of it, such as wheels for car. |
| Tone | The attitude of toward a subject conveyed in a literary work. Can be playful, sarcastic, ironic, sad, solemn, or any other attitude. |
| Understatement | An ironic figure of speech that deliverately describes something in a way that is less than the true case. |
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