Literary terms Flashcards
The recurrence of initial consistent sounds
Alliteration
A short informal reference to a famous person or event
Illusion
Comparison between two similar but different things in order to highlight their similar
Analogy
A person presented in a literary work
Character
The ways in which writer reveals the traits of characters to the audience the two methods are direct and indirect
Characterization
An overused sentence or phrase, expressing in common thought or idea
Cliché
Highest point of action or interest as in the plot of a story
Climax
A struggle between two opposing forces the five types are number one person vs person ,two person vs self , three person vs society ,four person vs nature ,five person vs fate /supernatural number ,six person vs technology
Conflict
To compare to show unlike this or different
Contrast
Examine and not the similarities between two characters/narratives/things
Compare
The conversation between characters in a drama or narrative
Dialogue
The writers’s choice of words/grade stone/mood/character
Dictation
A sudden moment of real
Epiphany
An inoffensive or indirect expression that is substitute for one that is considered offensive or too harsh
Euphemism
All literary work based on imagination, and not necessarily a fact
Fiction
A break in the storyline to introduce what has taken place earlier?
Flashback
I hate that something is gonna happen before it does
Foreshadowing
Obvious and intentional exaggeration
Hyperbole
Expressions that cannot be understood literary
Idiom
Descriptive language that evokes sensory experience
Imagery
The expression of meaning by using languages that normally signifies the opposite number one, dramatic. Number two, verbal number three situational.
Irony
Terminology that relates to the specific activity profession or group
Jargon
Compares to different things by speaking of one in terms of the other example she has a beautiful flower
Metaphor
