PAP/IS English I Literary Terms
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| Aside | show 🗑
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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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| Pun | show 🗑
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| show | The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence or grammatical pattern
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| Rhetorical Shift | show 🗑
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| Sarcasm | show 🗑
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| show | A work that targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions, for reform or ridicule
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| Soliloquy | show 🗑
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| Symbol | show 🗑
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| show | The way an author chooses ot join word into phrases, clauses, and sentences. It is similar to diction, but this refers to a group of words while diction refers to individual words
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| show | A writer's distinctive mode of expression (It can be flowery, explicit, succinct, rambling, bombastic, commonplace, or incisive)
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| show | Saying less than is actually meant, generally in an ironic way. The effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic
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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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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| show | The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
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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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| Indirect characterization | show 🗑
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| show | A change in the normal word order
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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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| show | A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else (e.g., Life a broken-winged bird)
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| show | A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it (e.g., the court - judge and jury)
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| show | A speech to the audience by one character in a play, story, or poem
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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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| Motivation | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas
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| Parable | show 🗑
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| show | A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but expresses the truth.
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| Parody | show 🗑
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| Parallelism | show 🗑
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| show | The perspective from which a story is told
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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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| show | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
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| show | Something out of its normal time
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| Antithesis | show 🗑
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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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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| show | The repetition or identical or similar vowel sounds within words in prose or poetry
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| show | The set of associations that occur to people when they hear or read a particular word
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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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| Epiphany | show 🗑
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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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| First-person narrator | show 🗑
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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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| Third-person omniscient narrator | show 🗑
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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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| show | A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but that expresses a truth
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| Setting | show 🗑
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| Simile | show 🗑
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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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