Literary Terms You Should Know
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | A brief (sometimes indirect) reference in a text of a person, place, or thing; fictitious or actual
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| Ambiguity | show 🗑
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| Analogy | show 🗑
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| Anaphora | show 🗑
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| show | inversion of the usual,normal,or logical purpose is rhythm.
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| show | brief story,told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something,often shows character of an individual.
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| show | Most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist
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| Anthropomorphism | show 🗑
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| show | central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes,lacks courage,grace,intelligence.
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| Antithesis | show 🗑
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| Aphorism | show 🗑
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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| Argument | show 🗑
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| show | Few words, or short passage spoken in an undertone or to the audience; other characters are deaf to it
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| Assonance | show 🗑
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| show | constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance.sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well.
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| show | form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another,often used as part of a logical argument.
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| characterization | show 🗑
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| show | in poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first,but with the parts reversed.
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| show | a word or phrase,often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse.Avoid cliches like the plague.
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| show | Moment of greatest intensity in a story which occurs toward the end; often takes form of a decisive confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist
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| Colloquialism | show 🗑
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| show | a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters.
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| Confessional Poetry | show 🗑
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| Conflict | show 🗑
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| Convention | show 🗑
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| show | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry.
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| Crisis | show 🗑
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| Dead Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Denotation | show 🗑
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| show | Resolution or conclusion of a literary work as plot complications are unraveled after climax
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| show | a form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion.
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| show | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.
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| Dialogue | show 🗑
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| show | Word choice or vocabulary; refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work
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| show | form of fiction of nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behaviour of thinking.
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| Direct Characterization | show 🗑
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| show | Reader/audience understands the implication & meaning of a situation & foresees the oncoming disaster/triumph but the character does not; it forms between the contrasting levels of knowledge of the character & the audience
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| show | (God from machine) refers to the Greek play writes frequent use of God to resolve human conflict with judgments & commands
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| Dynamic Character | show 🗑
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| Elegy | show 🗑
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| show | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.
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| show | Moment of insight, discovery, or revelation by which a character's life, or view of life is greatly altered
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| Epistrophe | show 🗑
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| Epithet | show 🗑
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| show | a short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject.
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| Explication | show 🗑
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| Exposition | show 🗑
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| show | a metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it.
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| External Conflict | show 🗑
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| Fable | show 🗑
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| show | Events in a narrative that follow the climax & bring the story to its conclusion, or denouement
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| Farce | show 🗑
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| show | Name for stories not entirely factual, but least partially shaped, made up, imagined
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| show | Uses figures of speech, metaphor, simile, & alliteration; is connotative & conveys the richness & complexity of language
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| show | Narrator is a participant in the action, refers to him or herself as "I"; shapes readers perception
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| show | one of the characters tells the story.
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| show | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
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| show | has only one or two personality traits. one-dimensional,can be summed up in one phrase.
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| show | Character whose qualities or actions are in stark contrast to those of another character, usually the protagonists; used to convey or develop protagonist's character
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| Free Verse | show 🗑
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| Genre | show 🗑
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| Hero | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech which uses exaggeration for comic, ironic, or serious effect
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| show | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person,a thing,a place,or an experience.
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| show | a 19th century movement in literature and art which advocated a recording of the artist's personal impressions of the world,rather than a strict representation of reality.
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| show | (In the midst of things) refers to a narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts
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| Indirect Characterization | show 🗑
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| show | a conflict can be internal,involving opposing forces within a person's mind.
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| Inversion | show 🗑
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| show | a discrepancy between appearances and reality.
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| show | Discrepancy exists when something is about to happen to a character or characters who expect the opposite outcome
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| Juxtaposition | show 🗑
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| Litotes | show 🗑
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| show | a term applied to fiction or poetry which tends to place special emphasis on a particular setting,including its customs,clothing,dialect and landscape.
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| Lyric Poem | show 🗑
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | Figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of another closely related thing (The crown = monarchy)
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| show | a metaphor that has become out of control and mixes its terms so that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible.
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| Monologue | show 🗑
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| Mood | show 🗑
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| show | a recurring image,word,phrase,action,idea,object,or situation used throughout a work,unifying the work by tying the current situation to the previous ones, or new ideas to the theme.
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| show | What a character in a story or drama wants; the reasons an author provides for a character's actions
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| show | Telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator;can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of events or happenings
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| show | a 19th century literary movement that was an extension of realism and that claimed to portray life exactly as it was.
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| Nonfiction | show 🗑
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| Novel | show 🗑
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| show | Short novel; mainly describes the size of a narrative
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| Objective POV | show 🗑
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| Omniscient POV | show 🗑
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| show | Attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it (crash, bang, pitter-patter)
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| show | a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.
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| Parable | show 🗑
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| Paradox | show 🗑
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| show | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.
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| Paratactic Sentence | show 🗑
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| Parody | show 🗑
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| Persona | show 🗑
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| show | Figure of speech in which a thing, an animal, or an abstract term is made human; allows an author to dramatize the nonhuman world in tangibly human terms
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| Persuasion | show 🗑
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| Plain Style | show 🗑
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| show | Unique arrangement of events that the author has made
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| show | the vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
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| show | sentence which uses a conjunction with no commas to separate the items in a series.x&y&z.
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| show | the central character in a story,the one who initiates or drives the action.
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| Pun | show 🗑
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| show | a poem consisting of four lines,or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit.
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| Realism | show 🗑
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| show | Occurs when ignorance gives way to knowledge; revelation of some fact not known before or a person's true identity
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| Refrain | show 🗑
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| Resolution | show 🗑
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| Rhetoric | show 🗑
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| Rhetorical Question | show 🗑
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| Rhythm | show 🗑
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| Rising Action | show 🗑
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| Round Character | show 🗑
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| Satire | show 🗑
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| show | Time & place of literary work; includes climate, social, psychological, or spiritual state of the participants
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| Short Story | show 🗑
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| show | Comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like, as, than, or a verb such as resembles
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| Situational Irony | show 🗑
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| Soliloquy | show 🗑
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| show | is one who does not change much in the course of a story.
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| Stereotype | show 🗑
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| Stock Character | show 🗑
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| Stream of Consciousness | show 🗑
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| show | All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work; depends on characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, & figurative language
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| show | Secondary arrangement of incidents, involving not the protagonist but someone less important
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| Surrealism | show 🗑
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| show | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story.
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| Symbol | show 🗑
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| Synecdoche | show 🗑
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| show | ability to create a variety of sentence structures,appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length.
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| Tale | show 🗑
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| Telegraphic Sentence | show 🗑
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| show | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
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| Third Person Limited | show 🗑
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| show | Doesn't see into the mind of any particular character, narrator reports action impartially without telling what the characters think or feel (Uses, he, she, or they)
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| show | See's into the mind of all (or some) of the characters
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| show | unknown narrator,focuses on feelings of only one character.
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| Tricolon | show 🗑
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| Verbal Irony | show 🗑
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| show | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality.
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