Literary terms Flashcards
Kennings
Land sea- lake
Mark maker-pencil
A description of an object or person to make a word
Caesuras
Pause in a line of poetry
Assonance
Vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases
Do you like blue?
Alliteration
Two or more words in a sentence that start with the same letter
Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Elegy
Type of poem that deals with loss, death, sad things, which are for mourning
Like a eulogy
Epic
Long poem that tells a story usually with a hero of some sort
Mock epic
Satirical towards an epic. Makes a fool the hero/exaggerates heroic qualities
Absurd
Direct characterization
Author makes statements directly to the reader about a character
Indirect characterization
Describing traits about a character indirectly. Implying
Legend
Story from the past that is believed to be true but cannot be proven
Diction
Dialect
Social commentary
author mentions and somewhat rebels to an issue of the time. Satire
Parody
Poking fun at a story
Fable
Short story, typically with animals as characters
Satire
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, to expose and criticize people’s doings
Romance
A heroic story
Exemplum
Story that is told to illustrate a moral point
Sermon
Speech or text usually on a moral issue
Breton lay
Rhyming love story. Supernatural events
Manual
Teaching, instruction
Archetypal narrative evidence
Patterns found in literature
Found in threes, symbolic, found around world
Narrative
Tells a story from the author in first person
