litterary devices for English 11 enriched
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| show | The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry. ie. Marilyn Monroe
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| Ambiguity | show 🗑
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| show | epetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines in a poem
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| show | A short story or joke told at the beginning of a speech to gain the audience’s attention
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| show | The protagonist’s adversary
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| show | When the ending of the plot in poetry or prose is unfulfilling or lackluster
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| show | When a character speaks to a character or object that is not present or is unable to respond
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| Assonance | show 🗑
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| show | Name for unrhymed iambic pentameter. An iamb is a metrical foot in which an unstressed syllable is
followed by a stressed syllable. In iambic pentameter there are five iambs per line making ten syllables
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| Climax | show 🗑
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| Colloquial language | show 🗑
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| Convention | show 🗑
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| Consonance | show 🗑
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| Couplet | show 🗑
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| show | Term that refers to a character or force that appears at the end of a story or play to help resolve
conflict. The phrase has come to mean any turn of events that solve the characters’ problems through an unexpected and unlikely intervention
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| show | Word choice or the use of words in speech or writing
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| Denouement (day-new-mon) | show 🗑
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| show | The alter ego of a character-the suppressed side of one’s personality that is usually unaccepted by
society
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| show | A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person
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| Emotive language | show 🗑
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| show | The continuation of reading one line of a poem to the next with no pause, a run-on line
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| Epic | show 🗑
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| Epilogue | show 🗑
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| show | Sudden enlightenment or realization, a profound new outlook or understanding about the world usually
attained while doing everyday mundane activities
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| show | Used to describe a novel that tells its story through letters written from one character to another
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| show | The act of substituting a harsh, blunt, or offensive comment for a more politically accepted or positive one.
(short=vertically challenged)
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| show | A succession of words which are pleasing to the ear. These words may be alliterative, utilize consonance, or
assonance and are often used in poetry but also seen in prose
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| show | Adds an unstressed syllable and a contraction/elision removes an unstressed syllable in order to maintain the rhythmic meter of a line. This explains some words frequently used in poetry such as th’ = the, o’er = over, and ‘tis or ‘twas = it is or it was
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| Fable | show 🗑
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| show | Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter
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| Figurative language | show 🗑
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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| show | 35. Flat character-A literary character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does not change over the
course of the story. Flat characters are usually minor or insignificant characters.
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| show | A character that by contrast underscores or enhances the distinctive characteristics of another.
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| show | the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices of a people, transmitted orally
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| show | The metrical length of a line is determined by the number of feet it contains.
Monometer: One foot
Dimeter: Two feet
Trimeter: Three feet
etc.
The most common feet have two to three syllables, with one stressed.
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| show | An iambic foot has two syllables. The first is unstressed and the second is stressed. The iambic foot is most common in English poetry.
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| Trochee | show 🗑
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| show | A dactylic foot has three syllables beginning with a stressed syllable; the other two unstressed
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| show | An anapestic foot has three syllables. The first two are unstressed with the third stressed.
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| show | a type of verse that contains a variety of line lengths, is unrhymed, and lacks traditional meter.
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| Genre | show 🗑
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| Gothic novel | show 🗑
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| show | A woman noted for courage and daring action or the female protagonist
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| Hubris | show 🗑
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| Hyperbole | show 🗑
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| show | Language that avoids meaning of the words. Speaking to conceal intentions or the true subject of a conversation; expresses two stories, one which is not apparent to the characters, but is to the reader. contains an underlying meaning or parallel meanings
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | A story that begins in the middle of things
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| Inversion | show 🗑
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| show | When one thing should occur, is apparent, or in logical sequence but the opposite actually occurs. Example: A
man in the ocean might say, “Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink.”
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| show | When the audience or reader knows something characters do not know
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| show | When one thing is said, but something else, usually the opposite, is meant
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| Cosmic Irony | show 🗑
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| Masculine ending | show 🗑
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| Memoir | show 🗑
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| show | The measured arrangement of words in poetry, as by accentual rhythm, syllabic quantity, or the number of
syllables in a line
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Metonymy | show 🗑
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| show | A dominant theme or central idea
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| Novella | show 🗑
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| Neutral language | show 🗑
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| show | Imperfect rhyme scheme
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| show | A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal
stanzaic structure. Celebrates something. John Keats is known for writing these
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| Onomatopoeia | show 🗑
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| Paradox | show 🗑
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| Parody | show 🗑
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| show | The rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice in the resolution of a plot. The character, as they
say, gets what he/she deserves
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| Prequel | show 🗑
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| show | An introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play
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| show | Ordinary speech or writing without metrical structure, written in paragraph form. Novels and short stories are
referred to as prose
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| show | The main character in a drama or literary work
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| show | Play on words, when two words have multiple meanings and spellings and are used in a humorous manner
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| show | the repetition of sounds in words
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| Rhyme scheme | show 🗑
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| show | The events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax
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| show | An incident which creates tremendous growth signifying a transition from adolescence to adulthood
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| show | A character who is developed over the course of the book, round characters are usually major
characters in a novel
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| show | Solution to the conflict in literature
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| Satire | show 🗑
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| Simile | show 🗑
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| show | A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech, made up typically of short-lived coinages and figures of speech that are deliberately used in place of standard terms for added raciness, humor, irreverence, or other effect
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| show | A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. Typical in plays
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| show | A poem with fourteen lines. An Italian sonnet subdivides into two quatrains and two tercets; while an English sonnet subdivides into three quatrains and one couplet. A volta is a sudden change of thought which is common in sonnets.
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| show | The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
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| Symbolism | show 🗑
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| show | A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.
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| show | Reflects how the author feels about the subject matter or the feeling the author wants to instill in the reader
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| litotes | show 🗑
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| show | metaphorical phrase used to name something, for example: mankind's enemy; that shadow of death instead of Grendel
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