Literary Terms

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Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds; usually in a poem

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Alliteration

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Story told on a symbolic level

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Allegory

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Certain amount of uncertainty, not sure what’s going on in text

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Ambiguity

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Comparison of two things that are alike in some ways

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Analogy

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A really short story that makes a point, can be a couple of sentences

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Anecdote

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Opposes the protagonist

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Antagonist

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Assonance

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Writer of a literary work

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Author

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A story, written by a person, of his or her life

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Autobiography

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Account of someone’s life written by someone else

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Biography

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Not rhymed poetry

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Blank verse

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A person in a literary work

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Character

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Moment of emotional intensity or suspense

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Climax

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Story ends happy

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Comedy

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Struggle between opposing characters or forces

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Conflict

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How you feel when you hear a word

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Connotation

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplet

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Literal meaning; dictionary definition

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Denotation

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The way people speak in a certain region

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Dialect

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Conversation between characters in a story or play

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Dialogue

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Meant to be acted in front of an audience; is not a comedy or a tragedy

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Drama

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Long story, usually a poem, that talks about great deeds of a hero

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Epic

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Short piece of nonfiction with a limited point of view

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Essay

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A very brief story that teaches a moral or lesson

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Fable

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A word or phrase that describes something but is not meant to be understood literally

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Figure of speech

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A scene that interrupts the present and shows the FUTURE

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Flash forward

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A scene that interrupts the present and shows the PAST

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Flashback

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A character that's a contrast to another

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Foil

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Has no known author but is passed from generation to generation

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Folk tale

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A hint about what's coming in the plot

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Foreshadowing

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Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme

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Free verse

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Category that a work of literature is classified

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Genre

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A Japanese form of poetry, 3 lines, first and last are 5 syllables and 7 in the middle. Generally about nature.

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Haiku

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Exaggeration, to express strong emotion or comic relief

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Hyperbole

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Language that appeals to the senses

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Imagery

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A contrast between what's expected and what's real

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Irony

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Comparison not using like or as

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Metaphor

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Storie's atmosphere or feeling it generates

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Mood

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A traditional story that was rooted in your society

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Myth

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Someone who talks about a series of events in a story

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Narrator

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Prose that deals with real things

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Nonfiction

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A word that's meaning is a sound

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Onomatopoeia

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The voice type of the writer

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Persona

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Taking something nonhuman and giving it human qualities

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Personification

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Related events that make up a story

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Plot

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Rhythmic compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery

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Poetry

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Main person in a story

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Protagonist

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A repetition of accented vowel sounds

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Rhyme

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Writing that ridicules something

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Satire