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Midterm Vocab

Literary Terms Deffinitions

QuestionAnswer
Alliteration a repatition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables
Assonance the repetition of vowel sounds
Simile a figure of speech that makes a direct comparason between two subjects, using either like or as
Metaphor a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
Symbol/Symbolism anything that stands for or represents something else
Onomatopoeia the use of words that imitate sounds
Allusion a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work or work of art.
Verbal Irony a word or phrase is used to suggest the opposite of its usual meaning
Dramatic Irony there is a contradiction between the charecter thinks and what the audience or reader knows
Situational Irony an event that contradicts the expectations of the charecters, readers or audience
Setting the time and place of an event
Plot the sequence of events
Theme a central message or insite into life revealed by a literary work
Charecter/Charecterization a person or animal that takes part in the action of literary work
Tone the writers attitude toward his or her subject, charecters or audience
Personification a figure of speech in which a nonhuman sugbject is given human charecteristics
End Ryhme the repetition of sounds at the end of words
Mood/Atmosphere the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Satire To poke fun at a serious issue
Iam Pentameter a line of poetry with 5 iambic feet, each containing one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed symbol (`')
Sonnet 14-lined lyric poem focused on a single theme
Verse One line of a poem
Prose the ordinary form of written language
Couplet/Quatrain 2 line stanza/ 4 line stanza
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