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karescajeda on January 29, 2012
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Literary Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliteration | "Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore" |
| Allusion | " I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does". (Warren Buffett) |
| Anecdote | "Nickel and Dimed" |
| Antagonist | Dark Vader |
| Antithesis | " Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing" |
| Antonym | " You always pass failure on the way to success" |
| Archetype | Star-crossed lovers: Romeo and Juliet |
| Argument | Declaration of Independence: Freedom |
| Aside | In the balcony scene when Romeo first gets there and Juliet doesn't notice that he is there and she describes how much she loves him. |
| Audience | Drowned Man: Adults who lack imagination or are trapped in a routine. |
| Climax | Romeo and Juliet: Romeo kills Tybalt,and he gets banished. |
| Complex Sentence | Although I ate a really big dinner, now I want to eat cake for dessert. |
| Compound Sentence | "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on" |
| Conflict-External | The Batman vs. The Joker |
| Conflict-Internal | Spiderman turning into Venom |
| Concrete Details | The Scarlet Ibis: "Lightning was playing across half the sky and thunder roared out, hiding even the sound of the sea. The sun disappeared and darkness descended." This description of the approaching storm foreshadows something bad is going to happen in the story. |
| Connotation | Integrate: Equal participation |
| Convey | President Obama presenting a speech that addresses the importance of Health Care Reform. |
| Declarative Sentence | "The best goodbyes are short" |
| Denotation | Integrate: Combination of parts so that they become a whole. |
| Dialogue | Austin: You need a wax. Sam: Excuse me? Austin: [laughs] I meant the car. |
| Diction | ominous glow vs. beaming light. |
| Ellipsis | "Wise man talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." |
| Epic | The Odyssey: by Homer |
| Exclamatory Sentence | " I can't believe it! It's alive!" |
| Fable | The Tortoise and the Hare |
| Fantasy | Beauty and the Beast |
| Fiction | Red Riding Hood |
| Flashback | As I walked to the altar to collect my High School diploma,I saw myself walking through my Elementary School doors for the first time. |
| Flat Character | Cinderella's stepmother, Lady Tremaine. She stays bad throughout the whole story. |
| Foil | Mercutio is a foil for Romeo. |
| Foreshadowing | Rome and Juliet: Act 1, scene 1: The Prince warns of the future consequences of starting anymore trouble in the city streets..."your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" |
| Genre | Tragedy |
| Hubris | Odysseus - He overcomes all the obstacles throughout his journey and his pride makes him believe he is in first place. So Polyphemus starts to throw rocks at the ship and destroys it. |
| Hyperbole | "She cried a river" |
| Idiom | " To make ends meet" - means to have enough money from day to day. |
| Implication | The Scarlet Letter- The letter A sewed on her clothes was symbol of adultery she committed. |
| Inference | The Scarlet Ibis: Noodle's conditions showed that he would die. |
| Irony | I can't go to church because I have a theology test to study for. |
| Limited Narrator | To kill a mockingbird - Boo Radley |
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