Final Exam Literary Terms Flashcards
An expression used to call something to mind without explicitly saying it, an indirect or passing reference.
Allusion
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral.
Allegory
Universally understood symbol, statement, term, or pattern of behavior upon which others are copied.
Archetypal Character
The quality of being trusted and believed
Credibility
Author tells us directly what a character is like
Direct characterization
When one person speaks and gives clues about their character.
Dramatic Monologue
Used to away the motions of an audience to make them support the speakers argument.
Emotional Appeal
A metaphor that extends over several lines, and is sometimes extended throughout an nature poem or story.
Extended metaphor
Poetry that doesn’t consist of meter, pattern, rhyme, or any other musical pattern.
Free verse
statement that applies to or covers many individuals, experiences, situations, observations, or texts.
Generalization
Psychological conflict within a central character
Internal Conflict
Form of poetry with rhyming schemes that express personal and emotional feelings.
Lyric Poetry
A position where the audience knows all that is going on.
Omniscient point of view
Expressing the meaning of something written or spoken in different words.
Paraphrase
Giving something non-human, human characteristics
Personification
Used to convince the reader of a writer’s point of view relating to a debatable issue
Persuasive writing
A source of information that can always be trusted when in need of info.
Reliable source
A character with many characteristics, sometimes contradicting.
Round character
A sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme patter abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
Shakespearean Sonnet
An act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers.
Soliloquy
Central idea of insight about human life revealed through a work of literature
Theme
The attitude a writer takes towards a subject, character, or the reader
Tone
Characteristic that brings about the downfall of the protagonist.
Tragic Flaw
