PAP/IS English I Literary Terms
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| show | Private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or to another character and that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage
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| show | The repetition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds (eaST,weST)
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| Catharsis | show 🗑
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| show | A concise, sometimes witty saying that expresses a principle, truth, or observation about life
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| Foil | show 🗑
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| Ode | show 🗑
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| show | A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
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| Repetition | show 🗑
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| show | A change from one tone, attitude, etc. Look for key words like but, however, even though, althought, yet, etc.
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| show | From the Greek meaing "to tear flesh," sarcasm involves bitter, caustic language that is meant ot hurt or ridicule someone or something. When well done, it can be witty and insightful
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| Satire | show 🗑
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| show | A long speech in which a character, who is usually on stage alone, expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings to himself
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| show | A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself
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| Style | show 🗑
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| show | A type of irony in which words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant.
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| show | A section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time.
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| Hyperbole | show 🗑
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| show | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions
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| show | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented
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| show | When an author tells what a character looks like, does and says, and how other characters react to him or her. It is up to the reader to draw conclusions about the character based on this information
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| inversion | show 🗑
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| show | A poetric and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are place next to one another
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| metaphor | show 🗑
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| Metonymy | show 🗑
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| Monologue | show 🗑
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| show | A word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea tha recurs in a work. It almost always bears an important relationship to the theme of a work of literature
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| show | A reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts, feeling, actions, or behavior
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| show | A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a question. They are allegorical stories usually religious in nature.
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| show | A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but expresses the truth.
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| show | A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
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| show | The repetition of a grammatical structure ("I came, I saw, I conquered.")
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| show | A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
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| Point of view | show 🗑
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | A story in which people, things, and events have another meaning (George Orwell's Animal Farm)
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| show | Something out of its normal time
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| Antithesis | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech i which a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality
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| show | The term is applied to an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotion
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | The dictionary meaning of the word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color
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| show | The form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group
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| show | An expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing. It lies between the upper level of dignified and lower level of slang
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| show | The repetition in two or more words of final consonants in stressed syllables (hiD/heaD)
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| show | A device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasantness (e.g., instead of saying "died" one says "passed on"
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| show | Where the main character tells the story (use of pronoun "I")
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| show | When the story is told by someone other than the main character and the reader knows what the character sees, thinks, etc.
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| show | When an event occurs that directly contrasts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or audience
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| show | The use of words that imitate sound in prose/poetry (e.g., bang, boom, hiss)
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| paradox | show 🗑
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| show | The time and place of the action in a story
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| show | A figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike subjects (e.g., She is as flighty as a sparrow)
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| show | Saying less than is actually meant, generally in an ironic way
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| show | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
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