Literary Terms Flashcards
scholarship vocabulary lesson 1
language that descripes concepts rather than concrete
abstract
when the charcater says on thing and means another
allegory
short or simple narrative of an incident
anecdote
added notes to give bilogolical notes about a character or story
annotation
the presentation of two contrasting images
antitnesis
device calling out a imaginary person place or thing
apostrophe
writting that proves a valid point of view or idea
argumentation
harsh wkard or dissonant sounds used poetry or prose
cacopnony
descriptive writting that describes a person apperance
caricature
quality of a piece of writting that developes the centeral idea
conerence
a word or phrase used in everyday conversation
colloquialism
language that describes specific observable thing,people,or places
concrete language
implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its association in the readers mind
connotation
repetition of 2 or more words in close proximity
consonace
a riddle or pun that may be a parodox or difficlut problem
condrum
process of moving rule to a specific example
deducation
literal meaning of a word
denotation
picture in word or something or someone detailed observation
description
word choice, an elment of style diction creates tone, attiude and style
diction
is a poem that tells a story and its meaning
ballad
the story of a person life that is writting by someone
biograpghy
unryhmed iambic pentemeter
blank verse
a pause or sudden break in a line of poetry
caesura
two events are related as cause and effect
cause and effect
a person who is repsonable for a role of a person in a story
character
a charcater in a story or poem who is agianist protagonist
antoganist
a picture or imitation of a persons habitats
caricature
a character who serves as acontrast or a conflict
foil
the order in which events happen in time
chronological order
see refrian
chorus
the readers process of pausing ocasionally while reading to a quick review what he/she undertands
clarifying
a type of figurative language containing ov erosed expressesion
cliche