Literary Terms You Should Know
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| show | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| show | an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way,done on purpose by the author,vagueness,detracts from work.
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| Analogy | show 🗑
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| Anaphora | show 🗑
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| Anastrophe | show 🗑
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| show | brief story,told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something,often shows character of an individual.
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| show | Most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist
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| Anthropomorphism | show 🗑
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| Antihero | show 🗑
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| show | balancing words,phrases,or ideas that are strongly contrasted,often by means of grammatical structure.
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| Aphorism | show 🗑
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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| Argument | show 🗑
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| Aside | show 🗑
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| show | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together.
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| show | constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance.sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well.
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| Causal Relationship | show 🗑
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| show | the process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.
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| Chiasmus | show 🗑
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| show | a word or phrase,often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse.Avoid cliches like the plague.
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| show | Moment of greatest intensity in a story which occurs toward the end; often takes form of a decisive confrontation between the protagonist and antagonist
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| Colloquialism | show 🗑
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| show | a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters.
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| show | a 20th century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poet's life.
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| show | Central struggle between two or more forces in a story;some person or thing that prevents the protagonist from reaching their goals
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | Expected features such as themes, subjects, attitudes, or figures of speech
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| Couplet | show 🗑
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| show | Point when crucial action, decision, or realization must be made marking the turning point or reversal of the protagonist's fortune
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| Dead Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Denotation | show 🗑
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| show | Resolution or conclusion of a literary work as plot complications are unraveled after climax
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| show | a form of discourse that uses language to create a mood or emotion.
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| show | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.
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| Dialogue | show 🗑
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| show | Word choice or vocabulary; refers to the class of words that an author decides is appropriate to use in a particular work
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| show | form of fiction of nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behaviour of thinking.
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| Direct Characterization | show 🗑
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| Dramatic Irony | show 🗑
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| show | (God from machine) refers to the Greek play writes frequent use of God to resolve human conflict with judgments & commands
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| show | is one who changes in some important way as a result of the story's action.
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| show | a poem of mourning ,usually about someone who has died.
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| Epigraph | show 🗑
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| Epiphany | show 🗑
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| show | device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated at the end of two or more lines,clauses, or sentence.
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| Epithet | show 🗑
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| Essay | show 🗑
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| Explication | show 🗑
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| Exposition | show 🗑
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| Extended Metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | they can exist between two people, between a person and nature or a machine or between a person a whole society.
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| show | Brief, often humorous narrative told to illustrate a moral; characters are traditionally animals whose personality traits symbolize human traits
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| show | Events in a narrative that follow the climax & bring the story to its conclusion, or denouement
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| show | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly,far-fetched situations.
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| Fiction | show 🗑
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| show | Uses figures of speech, metaphor, simile, & alliteration; is connotative & conveys the richness & complexity of language
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| First Person | show 🗑
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| First person POV | show 🗑
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| show | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.
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| show | has only one or two personality traits. one-dimensional,can be summed up in one phrase.
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| Foil | show 🗑
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| show | Suggestions of what is to come later; created through imagery, dialogue, diction, events or actions
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| show | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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| Genre | show 🗑
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| show | Central character in a narrative
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| Hyperbole | show 🗑
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| show | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person,a thing,a place,or an experience.
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| show | a 19th century movement in literature and art which advocated a recording of the artist's personal impressions of the world,rather than a strict representation of reality.
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| show | (In the midst of things) refers to a narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts
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| show | the author reveals how the character looks, dresses,his thoughts and feelings, his actions.
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| Internal Conflict | show 🗑
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| Inversion | show 🗑
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| show | a discrepancy between appearances and reality.
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| show | Discrepancy exists when something is about to happen to a character or characters who expect the opposite outcome
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| show | poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words,or phrases are placed next to one another,creating an effectof surprise and wit.
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| Litotes | show 🗑
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| Local Color | show 🗑
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| show | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker. A ballad tells a story.
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| show | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like,as,than,or resembles.
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| show | Figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of another closely related thing (The crown = monarchy)
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| Mixed Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Monologue | show 🗑
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| Mood | show 🗑
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| show | a recurring image,word,phrase,action,idea,object,or situation used throughout a work,unifying the work by tying the current situation to the previous ones, or new ideas to the theme.
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| show | What a character in a story or drama wants; the reasons an author provides for a character's actions
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| show | Telling of true or fictitious events by a narrator;can be either verse or prose and focus on the depiction of events or happenings
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| Naturalism | show 🗑
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| Nonfiction | show 🗑
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| show | An extended work of fictional prose narrative; more characters, more varied scenes, and broader coverage of time
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| Novella | show 🗑
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| show | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story,with no comment on any characters or events.
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| Omniscient POV | show 🗑
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| show | Attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated with it (crash, bang, pitter-patter)
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| Oxymoron | show 🗑
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| Parable | show 🗑
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| Paradox | show 🗑
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| Parallel Structure | show 🗑
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| Paratactic Sentence | show 🗑
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| show | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style.
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| show | Latin for mask; fictitious character created by author to always be the narrator
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| show | relies more on emotional appeals than on facts.
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| show | Writing style that stresses simplicity and clarity of expression,and was the main form of the puritan writers.
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| Plot | show 🗑
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| Point of View | show 🗑
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| Polysyndeton | show 🗑
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| Protagonist | show 🗑
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| Pun | show 🗑
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| show | a poem consisting of four lines,or four lines of a poem that can be considered as a unit.
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| Realism | show 🗑
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| Recognition | show 🗑
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| Refrain | show 🗑
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| show | the conclusion of a story,when all or most of the conflicts have been settled
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| Rhetoric | show 🗑
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| show | a question asked for an effect,and not actually requiring an answer.
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| Rhythm | show 🗑
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| Rising Action | show 🗑
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| Round Character | show 🗑
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| show | Seeks to expose the failings of individuals, institutions, ideas, communities, or society; ranges from mildly humorous to a bitter indictment & has frequent elements of scorn, indignation, or contempt
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| show | Time & place of literary work; includes climate, social, psychological, or spiritual state of the participants
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| show | A prose narrative too brief to be published in a separate volume as novella & novels are
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| show | Comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like, as, than, or a verb such as resembles
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| Situational Irony | show 🗑
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| show | Speech by a character alone onstage in which he or she utters his or her thoughts aloud
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| show | is one who does not change much in the course of a story.
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| Stereotype | show 🗑
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| show | Known by some outstanding trait or traits, require little detailed portraiture
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| show | a style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a character's mind.
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| show | All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work; depends on characteristic use of diction, imagery, tone, syntax, & figurative language
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| show | in movement in art and literature that started in Europe during the 1920s.surrealists wanted to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind,which they considered to be more real than the"real"world of appearances.
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| show | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story.
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| show | a person,place,thing,or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.
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| Synecdoche | show 🗑
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| Syntactic Fluency | show 🗑
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| Tale | show 🗑
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| Telegraphic Sentence | show 🗑
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| show | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work.
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| Third Person Limited | show 🗑
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| show | Doesn't see into the mind of any particular character, narrator reports action impartially without telling what the characters think or feel (Uses, he, she, or they)
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| show | See's into the mind of all (or some) of the characters
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| Third Person POV | show 🗑
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| show | sentence of three parts of equal importance and length,usually three independent clauses.
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| Verbal Irony | show 🗑
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| show | the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality.
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