English 9 Literary Terms Flashcards
What are the three types of irony?
Dramatic
Situational
Verbal
What is Dramatic Irony?
we know more than a character.
What is Situational Irony?
when there is disparity between what is expected and what occurs.
What is Verbal Irony?
when someone says the opposite of what they really mean.
symbolism
when one thing is used to represent something dissimilar.
personification
when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art,
simile
Directly compares two things. Similes differ from other metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using comparison words such as “like”, “as”, “so”, or “ than”,
metaphor
a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.
hyperbole
use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech
Figurative Language
phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across
plot
sequence of events in a literary work.
resolution
part of the story that ends the conflict and ties up loose ends.
exposition
background info at the beginning of a literary work.
foreshadowing
a hint of what is to come in a literary work.
third person POV
narrator exists outside the story
first person POV
narrator is a character in the story (“I”)
point of view
vantage point from which a story is told.
climax
the point at which the highest level of interest and emotional response is achieved.
flashback
interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character’s life
setting
the time and place of a literary work.
characterization
theme
the author’s message (see also central idea)
conflict (including internal vs. external)
characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces.
central idea
the overarching idea developed throughout a text; author’s message.
suspense -
quality of wanting to know what will happen next in a literary work
imagery
the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon
alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
tone
the author’s attitude toward the subject of a text.
onomatopoeia
word whose sound imitates its meaning.
allusion
a reference to something well-known that exists outside the text.
