Literary Terms
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| using another person's idea or words without giving them credit | ||
| a break, a sense clause in the middle of a verse | ||
| a logical error that weakens an argument | ||
| an extended comparison | ||
| the correspondance of consenants especially at the end of a word | ||
| examination of similarities and differences | ||
| discord of action, feeling or effect | ||
| condensation in one's own words of a work | ||
| figure of speech saying one thing without like/as | ||
| unrhymed dynamic contaminer verse | ||
| resemblance of sounds | ||
| connective tissue among sentences | ||
| person opposed to/struggles or competes with another | ||
| commencmenet of two or more words with the same letter | ||
| representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning | ||
| sorting and creating subgroups | ||
| writing that proves a point | ||
| figure of speech which uses like/as | ||
| lack of emphasis in a statement or point | ||
| use of an aspect of something rather than the whole | ||
| figure of speech where opposite of what is said is meant | ||
| exxageration for emphasis | ||
| assigning llifelike characteristics to inanimate objects | ||
| parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas | ||
| philosophy of intuitive spirit | ||
| another name for Elizabethan Sonnet | ||
| Italian sonnet | ||
| an ironic, sarcastic or witty composition | ||
| romantic | ||
| thought regarded as...interior monologue | ||
| the act of talking as if alone | ||
| something used for or regarding something else | ||
| statement that seems contradictory but is actually true | ||
| piece that exxagerate, imitates the real effect | ||
| figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms | ||
| interest or concern for the actual or real | ||
| the act or habit of using words inappropriately | ||
| statement or quality of feeling at particular time | ||
| rhyme created by two or more words in same line | ||
| view of human life in a negative view | ||
| formation of normal images | ||
| distinctive sometimes pictauresque representations in drama | ||
| a sentene or groups of sentences that announces thesis | ||
| the readers | ||
| a pair of successive rhymes of verse | ||
| final outcome | ||
| a single character gives speech to audience at a critical point | ||
| writing that explains | ||
| teaching or intending to teach a lesson | ||
| analysis...effects are considered | ||
| main idea in a piece of writing | ||
| running on of a line from one stanza to next | ||
| explaining how to view something, how others do it | ||
| any witty, ingenious, or pointed statement | ||
| commemoritive inscription | ||
| word choice | ||
| angle from which writer sees her subject | ||
| rephrasing into ones own words | ||
| any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe its qualities | ||
| class or category | ||
| excessive pride, self confidence | ||
| speech or writing departed from literal meaning in order to achieve special effect or meaning | ||
| seem better for contrast | ||
| formation of words by sounds | ||
| passing or casual reference | ||
| assertation of something as fact | ||
| an illustration or example | ||
| to show or indicate something in the future | ||
| using language effectively | ||
| authors words, way author uses language to achieve certain effects | ||
| means of creating an attitude or mood | ||
| the sentence in which the writer states the main idea | ||
| understood by audience, not characters | ||
| opposite of what is thought to happen happens |