FINAL- Lit Terms Flashcards
Alliteration
Repetition of consonants
Allegory
Characters represent qualities or ideas (Sherif Good or outlaw Bad)
Allusion
A reference to something or someone literary
Antagonist
The major character that opposes the main character.
Archetype
A character who represents a certain type of people
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Atmosphere
The overall feel of a work
Blank verse
Un-rhymed lines of poetry usually in iambic pentameter
Characterization
The means by which an author establishes character.
Climax
The point at which the action of the story tips.
Conflict
The elements that create a plot internal or external
Contrast
To explain how two things are different
Couplets
A pair of rhyming lines and a poem off set from the rest of the poem
Denouement
The resolution of the conflict
Dramatic Monologue
A poem with a fictional narrator, addressed to someone whose identity the reader knows
Elegy
A poem mourning the dead
End rhyme
Rhyming words that are at the ends of their lines/normal rhyme
Epic
A long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure
Fable
A story that illustrates a moral, often using animals
Figurative language
Language that does not mean exactly what it says
First person point of view
The writer writes as their self using “I”
Foreshadowing
The author uses clues to hint to stuff that might happen
Free verse
Poetry no meter or rhythm
Genre
I kind of style usually art or literature
Hyperbole
A Huge exaggeration
Iambic pentameter
Ten syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed
Imagery
The use of description that helps the reader imagine how something looks sounds or feels
Internal rhyme
A rhyme that occurs within one line
Irony
Language that conveys a certain idea by saying opposite
Literal language
Language that means exactly what it says
Lyric
Expresses the poets feelings, like music
Metaphor
A comparison that doesn’t use like/as
Meter
The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllable’s
Monologue
A long speech by one character
Mood
The emotional atmosphere at a given piece of writing
Motif
The thing that occurs in work
Myth
A legend that embodies the believes of people and offers an exclamation for natural and social phenomenon
Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like a thing
Paradox
Seeming contradiction (best of worst of times)
Personification
Getting a nonliving thing living qualities
Plot
The action of the story
Prose
Organized into paragraphs and sentences
Protagonist
The main character of the novel
Pun
A play on words
Quatrain
A four line stanza
Rhetorical question
The question on expected with an answer
Sarcasm
Language that conveys a certain idea…………
Satire
A word that makes fun of something/one
Sensory imagery
Imagery that has to do with something you hear
Simile
A comparison using like/as
Soliloquy
A monologue in which a character expresses thought
Sonnet
A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter
Stanza
A section of poetry
Sub plot
A line of action second to the main story
Symbolism
Something that represents another
Theme
The central idea of a work
Tone
The authors attitude toward their subject
Metonymy
The substitution of an attribute or addition for the thing meant
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is mean to represent the whole or vice a versa
Apostrophe
In literature, apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by “O” A writer or speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses and imaginary character in his speech
Assonance/dissonance
Assonance takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel what start with different consonant sounds. Dissonance is a tension or clash resulting from a combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements.
Aspect
A particular part or feature of something
Fallacy
A fallacy is and erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical connection. There are many fallacy examples that we can find in everyday conversations
Bombast
Boastful language
Doggerel
Verse or words that are badly written or expressed
Foot
A foot is a unit of meter, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllable’s
Decorum
Manners
Lampoon
A speech or text criticizing someone or something in this way
Plaint
A complement; a lamentation
Truism
A statement that is always a true says nothing new or interesting
Zeugma
A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses or two to others of which it semantically suits only one
Lyricism
The quality or state of being melodious; melodiousness
Homily
A religious discourse that is intended primarily for the spiritual edification rather then doctrinal instruction; a sermon
Parallel structure
Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas are the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as “and” or “or”
