Key Terms Flashcards
Adventure
Unusual, exciting or daring experience
Allegory
A story which can be interpreted in different ways
Allusion
An expression designed to call something to mind without explicit mention of it
Amplification
Adding detail to a story or statement
Anadiplosis
When a writer ends a line with the same word that the next sentence starts with
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or phrase at the start of consecutive sentences
Analogy
Comparison between one thing and another for the purpose of clarification
Anastrophe
Inversion of the usual order of words
Anecdote
Short amusing or interesting story about a real incident
Anthromorohism
Attribution of human characteristics
Antithesis
A person or thing which is the direct opposite of someone or something else
Archetype
A typical example of a certain person or thing
Asyndeton
A list without conjunction
Authorial intrusion
When the author steps out of the text and speaks to the reader
Bildungsroman
A novels which follows the protagonist through their formative years
Cacophony
Harsh or discordant mixture of sounds
Catharsis
Release of repressed emotions
Oxymoron
When contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Pathetic fallacy
When the weather effects the atmosphere or people’s actions
Catachresis
Use of a word in an incorrect way
Paradox
Absurd or contradictory statement or proposition
Periphrasis
Use of indirect and circumlocutory speech and writing
Personification
Giving non human objects human features
Plot
Main evens of a play novel or film
Point of view
The narrators position in relation to a story being told
Polysyndeton
List with consecutive conjunctions or repeating the main message
Portmanteau
A word blending the sounds and combining the meaning of two others
