#61-75 Literacy Terms Flashcards
Parallelism
When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length
Parody
a kind of burlesque that is a humorous imitation of serious writing, usually for the purpose of
making the style of an author appear ridiculous.
Persona
the speaker or narrator of a text or poem. Cannot be assumed to be the author.
Personification
the representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings by endowing them with life-like qualities.
Plot
the series of happenings in a literary work.
Point of view
the relation between the teller of the story and the characters in it.
Polysyndeton
using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.
Prosody
the mechanics of verse poetry – its sounds, rhythms, scansions and meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, assonance, euphony, onomatopoeia, and rhyme.
Protagonist
the leading character in a literary work.
Pun
a play on words; a humorous use of a word that has different meanings or of two or more words with the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings.
Rhyme
exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words.
Rhyme scheme
The pattern of rhyme. The traditional way to mark these patterns of rhyme is to assign a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound at the end of each line.
Satire
the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human
foible, with the intention of inspiring reform.
Setting
the time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs.
Simile
a figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’.
