Humanities 10H Literary Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound |
| Allusion | A reference to a mythological, literary or historical person, place or thing |
| Apostrophe | a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate. |
| Assonance | the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words |
| Consonance | the repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect |
| Details | the facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose |
| Diction | a word choice intended to convey a certain effect |
| Figures of Speech | words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else |
| Flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration |
| Imagery | the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses. |
| Irony | Verbal, Dramatic, and Situational... |
| Metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as" |
| Mood | the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work |
| Motivation | a circumstance or set of circumstances that prompts a character to act in a certain way or that determines the outcome of a situation or work |
| Narration | the telling of a story in writing or speaking |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe |
| Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression |
| Paradox | when the elements of a statement contradict each other |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
| Plot | the sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem |
| Point of View | the perspective from which a narrative is told |
| Prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
| Protagonist | the central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem |
| Pun | a play on words |
| Repetition | the deliberate use of any element of language more than once |
| Rhyme | the repetitionof sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem |
| Sarcasm | the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it |
| Setting | the time and place in which events in a short story, novel, or narrative poem take place |
| Shift or turn | a change in movement of a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight bained by the speaker, a character, or the reader |
| Simile | a comparison of two unlike things or ideas through the use of the words "like" or "as" |
| Sound Devices | stylistic technices that convey meaning through sound |
| Structure | the framework or organization or a literary selection |
| Style | the writer's characteristic manner of employing language |
| Suspense | the quality of a short story, novel, play or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
| Symbol | any object, person, place or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself |
| Synecdoche | a part of something is used to signify the whole |
| Metonymy | the whole signifies the part |
| Syntax | arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence |
| Theme | the central message of a literary work |
| Tone | the writer's or speaker's attitude, toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail |
| Understatement | opposite of hyperbole--a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is |
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