Literary Terms
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| using pity to pursuay | ||
| character,situation, or symbol that is familiar to all people because it occurs frequently in literature,myths,folklure..etc | ||
| folk tale;moral. "Early bird gets the worm." | ||
| unclear | ||
| concept directly opposed to a previously presented idea | ||
| a protagonist who lacks the characteristics that would make him a hero (or her a heroine) | ||
| brief summary into writing | ||
| works aginst protagonist, the character who works against the protagonist in the story | ||
| a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | ||
| rhetorical figure of direct adress to a person,object or abstract entity | ||
| something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | ||
| the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god) | ||
| a reference to another work of literature, person, or event | ||
| A metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable. | ||
| The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. | ||
| poem or song about lovers parting at morning | ||
| a folk song or poem passed down orally that tells a story which may be derived from an actual incident or from legend or folklore. | ||
| unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | ||
| unpleasant sound | ||
| "Seize the day"; a Latin phrase implying that one must live for the present moment, for tomorrow may be too late. | ||
| emotional release | ||
| inverted; "sharing is caring, caring is sharing" | ||
| conversational; used in informal speech or writing | ||
| comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative | ||
| an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor. | ||
| All the meanings, associations or emotions that a word suggests | ||
| a character with traits that are expected or traditional | ||
| a foot of poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables | ||
| The dictionary definition of a word | ||
| conclusion; resolution; the falling action of a story after its climax | ||
| a god introduced into a narrative to resolve the entanglements of the plot. | ||
| a writer's or speaker's choice of words | ||
| intended to teach; morally instructive | ||
| exaggeration or stretching the truth to achieve a desired affect | ||
| running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza to another | ||
| a short poem with a witty point; turn of thought | ||
| a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing, refelctive of theme | ||
| a moment of sudden revelation or insight | ||
| A novel in letter form written by one or more of the characters. The novelist can use this technique to present varying first-person points of view and does not need a narrator. | ||
| an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | ||
| pleasant, harmonious sound | ||
| a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings to amuse the audience | ||
| a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | ||
| A character who is opposite main character or nearly the same as the protagonist; purpose of foil character is to emphasize traits of main character by contrast only | ||
| affirmation of idea using negative understatement; opposite of hyperbole | ||
| radical change in character; physical or emotional | ||
| a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry | ||
| something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it | ||
| an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined | ||
| a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson | ||
| statement/situation seems impossible but solves itself and reveals meaning | ||
| repeated use of grammatical structure in a sentence or series of sentences | ||
| comical imitation of serious piece; intended to ridicule author | ||
| poem,story,play that celebrates the life of shepherds pr shepherdesses | ||
| work that appeals to emotions | ||
| play on words that have several meanings or words that sound the same but diff. meanings | ||
| repitition of line,stanza,or phrase | ||
| use of humor to ridicule and expose society,individuals, and institutions of their failures in hope of change | ||
| move from one thought or idea to another | ||
| character's speech to audience to reveal emotions or ideas | ||
| 14 line love poem in iambic pentameter | ||
| character that audience expects to have certain characteristics | ||
| replictes the way the human mind works | ||
| way writer uses language;considering diction,tone .. etc. | ||
| object or scene that has deeper significance | ||
| substitution for what is actually being asked/stated | ||
| way words,phrases, and sentences are ordered and connected | ||
| refers to authors attitude toward subject | ||
| expressing thought in a way that seems sincere but is actually joking | ||
| a defect in a hero/heroine that leads to his/her downfall |