Lieterary Terms for Grammar
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 allegory | a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea or generalization about life and often has a moral or lesson |
| alliteration | the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
| anecdote | a little story about an interesting, amuzing, or strange event, the purpose of whichis to entertain or make a point |
| analogy | a comparison of two different things |
| anaphora | the repof words and phrases so thata pattern is created for effect |
| antagonist | a character or force in conflict with a main character, or protagonist |
| antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure |
| archetype | A symbol, story pattern, or character type that is found in the literature of many cultures. Example: Children of opposite qualities born of the same parents |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds |
| autobiography | a biography of yourself |
| climax | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding |
| connotation | all the emotions associated with a word that help to give that word its current meaning |
| denotation | a dictionary definition of a word |
| denouement | outcome; unraveling of the plot of a play or work of literature |
| dialect | a form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group |
| diction | a writer's or speaker's choice of words |
| didactic literature | instructs or presents a moral or religious statement |
| exposition | the beginning introduces the characters, setting, and basic situation |
| fable | a short story told to teach a lesson |
| falling action | the cation that follows the climax leading downwards |
| foil | a character who serves as a contrast or challenge to another character |
| foreshadowing | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot |
| genre | a category of literature |
| heroic couplet | a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| hubris | greek word "hybris" meaning excessive pride leading to downfall |
| irony | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs |
| dramatic irony | irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play |
| irony of situation | this refers to a happening that is the opposite of what is expected or intended. |
| verbal irony | occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought 9 meant something else) |
| lyric | a short poem that expresses emotion |
| metaphor | a figure of speech comparing to unlike things without using like or as |
| metonymy | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') |
| meter | the patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a of poetry |
| mood | atmosphere; feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| motif | a theme or idea in a work of art or literature that is developed or repeated |
| myth | a traditional story accepted as history |
| narration | writing that tells a story |
| narrative poem | a poem that tells a story |
| onomatopoeia | using words that imitate the sound |
| oxymoron | an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined |
| parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
| personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract objects |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| first person | told from the narrator's point of view, using "I" |
| second person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur |
| third person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story |
| protagonist | the main character |
| resolution | the denouement or portion of the play or story where the problem is solved |
| rising action | events leading up to the climax |
| romanticism | impractical romantic ideals and attitudes |
| rhyme | a piece of poetry |
| setting | the time and place where a play or short story is |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| stanza | a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem |
| symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible |
| synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part |
| theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work |
| thesis | a statement of opinion |
| tone | the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters or readers |
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