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Literary Terms Flashcards

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Piece of writing that is a big extended metaphor (Animal Farm); everything is symbolic

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Allegory

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Repetition of sounds in poetry at the beginning or words (eLeven Lionesses Leaped Lightly)

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Alliteration

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Reference to something else (book refers to someone dying in the fields of France during the time of WWII)

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Allusion

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Villain/bad character, opposite of hero

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Antagonist

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Understood association of a word (odor sounds negative, fragrance sounds positive), emotional meaning

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Connotation

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Repetition of vowel sounds (swEEt, chEEse)

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Assonance

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Overall feeling created by mood, plot and characters a reader gets

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Atmosphere

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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (Shakespeare), unrhymed but has meter

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Blank Verse

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Art of creating characters, portrayal or description

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Characterization

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Highest point of action in literature, where the conflict comes to a head, intense

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Climax

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Direct meaning of a word(Dictionary Definition)

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Denotation

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Problem in a literary work

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Conflict

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Pair of lines in poetry with the same meter

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Couplets

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Final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work

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Denouement

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One person speaks about the conflict that is going on, usually from tragedies or dramas, long

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Dramatic Monologue

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Mournful or melancholic poem

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Elegy

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Rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verse

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End rhyme

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Long narrative poem of adventure/heroics

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Epic

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Short story that usually includes personification of animals or objects that tells a story

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Fable

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Language that tries to show not tell, uses figures of speech

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Figurative language

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When main character tells the story using I or we

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First Person point of view

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When something is mentioned towards the beginning of a work that hints at something that will happen later

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Foreshadowing

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Poem that does not rhyme and has no meter and usually tells a story

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Free verse

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Category of literature, i.e fantasy, nonfiction, etc.

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Genre

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An exaggeration (a million miles)

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Hyperbole

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A pattern of rhythm in poetry (Shakespeare), stressed and unstressed, five iambs, ten total syllables

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Iambic Pentameter

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Uses words to “show” a person, place or thing, mental images

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Imagery

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Rhyme that occurs in a single line

The hopes and FEARS of all the YEARS

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Internal Rhyme

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If Ariel loves eating sushi, that’s ________,
Situational-opposite of what’s expected happens
Dramatic-reader knows something the characters don’t
Verbal-sarcasm

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Ironic

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Write or say something by its actual definition, exactly what it says

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Literal language

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Set of words that make up a song

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Lyrics

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Comparing two things by using is

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Metaphor

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Rhythm of sounds in literature

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Meter

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A single character in a drama speaks their thoughts out loud, alone or to other characters, speech

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Monologue

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Feelings you should get from a literary work

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Mood

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Recurring element

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Motif

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Traditional or legendary story

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Myth

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Word that sounds like what it says (bang, pop)

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Onomotopoeia

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Something that contradicts another statement, oxymoron (nobody goes there because there’s too many people)

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Paradox

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A work that makes fun of another work (Weird Al), imitation with exaggeration, Colbert Report/Monty Python

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Parody

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Making something like an animal or object have human qualities

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Personification

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Events that make up a story

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Plot

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Normal talking and writing(not poetry)

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Prose

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Main character/good character

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Protagonist

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Play on words (Eye love your new glasses!), there was a fire at the GAP, and there were many casual-tees

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Pun

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Stanza in a poem with four lines

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Quatrain

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Question that doesn’t require an answer, sarcastic, used to make a point

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Rhetorical question

48
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Saying something, but meaning the opposite

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Sarcasm

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Making fun of something, criticizing, exposes stupidity

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Satire

50
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Picture created in your head by words, 5 senses

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Sensory Image

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Comparing two things using like or as(friendship is like peeing on yourself, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth)

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Similie

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When a character in a play talks to themselves, reveals their feelings/what they are thinking

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Soliloquy

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Fourteen line love poem, iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

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Group of lines in a poem

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Stanza

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Secondary series of events that adds to the conflict

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Subplot

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Something represents something else

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Symbolism

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Lesson present throughout the work

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Theme

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Way the author speaks, author’s opinion

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Tone

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Way the author speaks, how relatable they are, makes the writer unique

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Voice

60
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Choice of words, clearness

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Diction

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Way words are put together

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Syntax

English II Honors (2 decks)

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