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PAP/IS Lit. Terms Fill In The Blanks

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Literary Term: AsideDefinition: Private words that a in a play speaks to the audience or to another character and that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage
Literary Term: Definition: The repetition of final consonant sounds different vowel sounds (eaST,weST)
Literary Term: Definition: A moral and spiritual cleansing; an empathic identification with others (e.g., watching a overcome great odds to survive can create this; confession purges the soul)
Literary Term: Definition: A concise, sometimes witty saying that expresses a , truth, or observation about life
Literary Term: Definition: A character who sets off another character by contrast
Literary Term: OdeDefinition: A , generally long lyric poem on a serious subject
Literary Term: Definition: A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have meanings
Literary Term: Definition: The , either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence or grammatical pattern
Literary Term: Rhetorical Definition: A change from one tone, attitude, etc. Look for key words like but, , even though, althought, yet, etc.
Literary Term: SarcasmDefinition: From the Greek meaing "to tear flesh," sarcasm involves bitter, caustic language that is meant ot hurt or someone or something. When well done, it can be witty and insightful
Literary Term: SatireDefinition: A work that targets human vices and follies, or institutions and conventions, for reform or ridicule
Literary Term: Definition: A long speech in which a character, who is usually on stage alone, expresses his or her thoughts or feelings to himself
Literary Term: SymbolDefinition: A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something itself
Literary Term: Definition: The way an 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
Literary Term: StyleDefinition: A writer's distinctive mode of expression (It can be , explicit, succinct, rambling, bombastic, commonplace, or incisive)
Literary Term: Definition: A central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work. It is not a condensed summary, but rather a generalization about human beings or life that the literary work communicates
Literary Term: Definition: The writer's toward his or her audience and subject. It often can be described by a single adjective
Literary Term: Definition: Saying less than is actually meant, generally in an ironic way. The effect can frequently be humorous and
Literary Term: ironyDefinition: A type of irony in which words are used to the opposite of what is meant.
Literary Term: Definition: A section of a work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time.
Literary Term: Definition: The use in a work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
Literary Term: Definition: A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. They often have a comic effect, but they can also have a serious . Often, it produces irony at the same time
Literary Term: Definition: The sensory details or language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions
Literary Term: InferenceDefinition: To draw a reasonable from the information presented
Literary Term: Indirect Definition: When an tells what a character looks like, does and says, and how other characters react to him or her. It is up to the reader to draw conclusions about the character based on this information
Literary Term: Definition: A change in the normal word
Literary Term: JuxtapositionDefinition: A poetric and device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are place next to one another
Literary Term: metaphorDefinition: A of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else (e.g., Life a broken-winged bird)
Literary Term: MetonymyDefinition: A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it (e.g., the - judge and jury)
Literary Term: MonologueDefinition: A speech to the audience by one in a play, story, or poem
Literary Term: Definition: A word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea tha recurs in a work. It always bears an important relationship to the theme of a work of literature
Literary Term: MotivationDefinition: A reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts, , actions, or behavior
Literary Term: Definition: A figure of that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas
Literary Term: ParableDefinition: A story designed to suggest a principle, illustrate a moral, or answer a . They are allegorical stories usually religious in nature.
Literary Term: ParadoxDefinition: A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but expresses the .
Literary Term: ParodyDefinition: A work that closely imitates the style or content of with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule
Literary Term: Definition: The repetition of a grammatical ("I came, I saw, I conquered.")
Literary Term: Definition: A type of language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
Literary Term: of viewDefinition: The perspective from which a story is
Literary Term: Definition: The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words within a line of poetry or in a /paragraph (It is a sound device - the Sweet, Soothing Sound of rain))
Literary Term: AllegoryDefinition: A story in people, things, and events have another meaning (George Orwell's Animal Farm)
Literary Term: AllusionDefinition: A reference to a well-known , place, event, literary work, or work of art
Literary Term: Definition: Something out of its normal
Literary Term: Definition: It a direct contrast of structually parallel word groupings, generally for the purose of contrast (e.g., sink or swim)
Literary Term: ApostropheDefinition: A figure of speech i which a directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality
Literary Term: Definition: The term is applied to an , 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
Literary Term: AssonanceDefinition: The repetition or identical or similar vowel sounds within words in prose or
Literary Term: ConnotationDefinition: The set of associations that occur to people when they hear or read a word
Literary Term: DenotationDefinition: The dictionary of the word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color
Literary Term: Definition: The form of a language spoken by people in a region or group
Literary Term: Definition: An 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
Literary Term: ConsonanceDefinition: The repetition in two or more of final consonants in stressed syllables (hiD/heaD)
Literary Term: EpiphanyDefinition: A sudden understanding or realization which prior to this was not thought of or
Literary Term: EuphemismDefinition: A device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasantness (e.g., instead of saying "died" one says "passed
Literary Term: First-person Definition: the main character tells the story (use of pronoun "I")
Literary Term: -person limited narratorDefinition: When the story is told by someone other than the main character and the reader what the character sees, thinks, etc.
Literary Term: Third-person omniscient Definition: When someone other than the main tells the story and the reader knows what all characters see, think, etc.
Literary Term: Situational Definition: When an event occurs that directly contrasts the expectations of the , the reader, or audience
Literary Term: OnomatopoeiaDefinition: The use of that imitate sound in prose/poetry (e.g., bang, boom, hiss)
Literary Term: Definition: A statement that seems or absurd but that expresses a truth
Literary Term: Definition: The time and place of the in a story
Literary Term: SimileDefinition: A figure of speech in which like or as is used to make a comparison between two basically unlike subjects (e.g., She is as as a sparrow)
Literary Term: Definition: Saying less than is actually meant, generally in an way
Literary Term: Definition: The feeling created in the by a literary work or passage
 
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