Second Semester Literary Terms
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kevinhuitt on April 7, 2011
Subjects:
american literature and composition
Description:
Literary terms for the second semester exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Allusion | a reference to a person, place, event or literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize |
| Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly |
| Blank verse | verse (poetry) written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Climax | the decisive point in a narrative or drama; the point of greatest interest or intensity |
| Falling Action | follows the climax and shows a reversal of fortune for the protagonist |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come |
| Imagery | words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind. |
| Introduction | in a narrative, information presented at the beginning that is essential to understanding the story (usually includes setting, introduction of main characters and introduction of the conflict) |
| Irony | a contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what really happens |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things |
| Mood | the prevailing feeling or emotional climate of a literary work, often developed, at least in part through descriptions of settings |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which something non-human is given human qualities |
| Point of view | the vantage point from which a narrative is told (first person, third person limited, or third person omniscient) |
| Resolution | the moment in a story where the conflict ends and the outcome of the action is clear |
| Rising Action | the action in a story as it moves towards a climax. This action usually works to explore/explain the conflict of the story. |
| Setting | the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem occur. |
| Symbol | an object, person, place or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value. |
| Tone | the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters or readers. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech using exaggeration, or overstatement, for special effect. |
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