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PAP/IS Lit. Terms


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Category: Literary Term

 
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EpiphanyDefinition: A sudden understanding or realization which prior to this was not thought of or understood20false
AsideDefinition: Private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or to another character and that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage30false
UnderstatementDefinition: Saying less than is actually meant, generally in an ironic way40false
RepetitionDefinition: The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence or grammatical pattern50false
DialectDefinition: The form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group60false
ParodyDefinition: A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule80false
InferenceDefinition: To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented90false
SymbolDefinition: A person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself100false
SyntaxDefinition: The way an author 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 words110false
AlliterationDefinition: The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words within a line of poetry or in a sentence/paragraph (It is a sound device - the Sweet, Soothing Sound of rain))120false
MotifDefinition: A word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea tha recurs in a work. It almost always bears an important relationship to the theme of a work of literature130false
ImageryDefinition: The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions140false
StyleDefinition: A writer's distinctive mode of expression (It can be flowery, explicit, succinct, rambling, bombastic, commonplace, or incisive)150false
Rhetorical ShiftDefinition: A change from one tone, attitude, etc. Look for key words like but, however, even though, althought, yet, etc.160false
FlashbackDefinition: A section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time.170false
EuphemismDefinition: A device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasantness (e.g., instead of saying "died" one says "passed on"180false
ParadoxDefinition: A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but expresses the truth.190false
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 flighty as a sparrow)200false
MonologueDefinition: A speech to the audience by one character in a play, story, or poem210false
SoliloquyDefinition: A long speech in which a character, who is usually on stage alone, expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings to himself230false