Literary Terms

Question 1

The central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action

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Protagonist

Question 2

The opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero in a story

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Antagonist

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A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time

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Flashback

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Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture

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Allusion

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Occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else

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Verbal Irony

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Occurs when a character in the play or story thinks one thing is true, but the audience or reader knows better

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Dramatic irony

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Occurs when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen

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Situational irony

Question 8

A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect

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Hyperbole

Question 9

Uses 5 senses//The use of language y evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, or a place, or an experience

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Imagery

Question 10

A speaker or writer’s choice of words

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Diction

Question 11

The strict dictionary definition of a word

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Denotation

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The associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition

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Connotation

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A figure of speech that uses to comparisons between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, then, or, resembles

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things with the use of specific words of comparison as like, as, then, or resembles

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Simile

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An atmosphere or feeling created within the reader when analyzing the authors diction in the details within a passage

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Mood

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A person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself

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Symbol/Symbolism

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Figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is giving human characteristics

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Personification

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Using words that imitate the sounds they devote

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Onomatopoeia

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Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close together

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Alliteration

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in the words that are together

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Assonance

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Occurs when the rhyming words come at the ends of lines

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End rhyme

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Occurs when rhyming words appear in the same line

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Internal rhyme

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And in perfect form of rhyme created by forcing pronunciation of words or linking multiple words together usually has the same consonant sound but not the same vowel sound

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Slant rhyme

Question 24

The use of an element the sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or sentence more than once

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Repetition

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A word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated for effect, several times in a poem (or song)

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Refrain