English Literary Analysis Vocab Flashcards
tone
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject
sensory language
A writing technique used in creative writing that involves the five senses: taste, touch, sight, sound, and smell
Imagery
Imagery is language that addresses the five senses
Verbal Irony
Often referred to as sarcasm: in literature, verbal irony is usually developed in character dialogue or in the internal thoughts of a narrator
Dramatic irony
When the reader or audience knows something other characters in a text do not
Situational irony
Involves a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite what was intended.
Allusion
An implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text
Motif
An object, image, sound, or phrase that is repeated throughout a story to point toward the story’s larger theme
Juxtaposition
Placing 2 things side by side so as to highlight their differences
Foreshadowing
A literary device used to hint at events that have yet to happen, and keep the readers guessing about the outcome
Flashback
Flashbacks interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a characters life
Parallelism
Using similar words, clauses, phrases, sentence structure, or other grammatical elements to emphasis similar ideas in a sentence.
Symbolism
This is a figure of speech in which a person, situation, word, or object is used to represent another thing.
Syntax
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences
Anthropomorphism
The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, aimal, or object.
