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Literary terms for 9/1
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Language - English
10th Grade
09/16/2009

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Allusion
Definition
a mention, or reference
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Assonance
Definition
When words in succession contain vowels that make similar sounds
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Characterization
Definition
the process of conveying information about a character in fiction or conversation
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Connotation
Definition
an idea that is implied or suggested
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Ellipsis
Definition
leaving out certain parts of a sentence to make it shorter and less repetitive.
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Eulogy
Definition
a speech that is given to honor a dead person
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Foil
Definition
a character whose personality is opposite of another character to point out certain traits that character possesses
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Iambic Pentameter
Definition
a line of poetry made up of five iambs.
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Lyric Poetry
Definition
a poem that expresses emotion
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Myth
Definition
a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
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Paradox
Definition
a statement that contradicts itself
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Prose
Definition
writing that resembles everyday speech
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Rhyme
Definition
The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
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Simile
Definition
Comparing two things using like or as.
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Symbol
Definition
An item that keeps popping up or pertaining to something other than itself.
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Allegory
Definition
a story where everythign is representative of something
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Figurative Language
Definition
language not mean to be taken literally
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Diction
Definition
A writer's distinct vocabulary choice
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Apostrophe
Definition
when a writer talks to an imaginary character who may be dead
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Comic Relief
Definition
the use of humor in a serious scene or chapter
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Biography
Definition
a written account of someone else's life
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Essay
Definition
a short piece of writing about a single thing
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Haiku
Definition
japanese poetry consisting of three lines of 5-7-5 syllables
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Irony (Dramatic)
Definition
when the author tells the reader something the characters dont know
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Irony (Verbal)
Definition
when a writer says 1 thing, but means another
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Irony (situational)
Definition
when the reader expects one thing and something else happens
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Moral
Definition
a lesson to be learned from a story
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
words used to convey sounds
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Poetry
Definition
a literary composition written in verse and has meter
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Repetition
Definition
using the same word multiple times
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Setting
Definition
Time and location in a story
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Stereotype
Definition
a character with traits that make the person represent a group
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Unreliable Narrator
Definition
A narrator in a story whose account is faulty or biased
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Pathos
Definition
ways of convincement, logos is through logic, ethos is through authority, or pathos through emotion
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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of the same syllable
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Aside
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Aside
Definition
speech that only the audience hears
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Blank Verse
Definition
a poem with no rhyming patter, but has meter
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Conflict
Definition
Disagreement between opposite sides in a play
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Drama
Definition
single play or group of plays
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Flashback
Definition
when the story is interpreted to explain events from before the play or play started
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Hyperbole
Definition
An exaggereted statement
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Jargon
Definition
vocabulary specific to an industry, trade or group
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Motif
Definition
A reoccuring object, concept, theme, in a work of literature
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Oxymoron
Definition
two opposite meanings of a word that makes a sentence
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Point of View
Definition
refers to how the story is told
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Rhetorical Question
Definition
a questions where no answer is expected
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Short story
Definition
a mini-story
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Suspense
Definition
the way the audience reacts due to the outcome of the story
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Analogy
Definition
2 words compared to show similarities
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Autobiography
Definition
the writer's account of their own life
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Character
Definition
an individual involved in the story. Flat - stereotype, Round - Realistic Character, Static - character stays the same, doesn't change, Dynamic - the character changes
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Couplet
Definition
two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
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Epic Hero
Definition
a hero that is the main character with noble or divine origins
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Excerpt
Definition
a piece of writing taken out of another piece of literature
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Foreshadowing
Definition
hints that tell you about what might happen in the future
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Idiom
Definition
An exaggeration of something that is said
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Narrator
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Parallelism
Definition
when you take two similar parts of grammer sentences and use them to relate importance
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Protagonist
Definition
the person the entire story is centered around
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Rhythm
Definition
the way the text flows or rhymes
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Soliloquy
Definition
a speech a character gives when sad or lonely
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Theme
Definition
the main idea of the story, often has a deep meaning
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Antagonist
Definition
something that opposes the protagonist
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Bias
Definition
the author's opinion
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Comedy
Definition
ends happy or in marriage
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Dialect
Definition
the way the character naturally speaks
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Epic
Definition
a lengthy, narrative poem
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Fiction
Definition
something that is not real
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Genre
Definition
the type or style of a story
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Inference
Definition
an implication based on previous evidence
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Mood
Definition
the mood or feeling in a story
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Novel
Definition
a long story or book
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Plot
Definition
the storyline of the story, events that make up the story
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Quatrain
Definition
a poem with 4 lines
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Satire
Definition
a story that mocks humans or a practice to bring change
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Stanza
Definition
a paragraph in a poem
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Tragedy
Definition
a play that ends in death
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Anthropomorphism
Definition
giving human shape to something that is not human
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Pun
Definition
a play on words
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Sarcasm
Definition
when someone says a remark but they mean the opposite
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Sonnet
Definition
a poem typicaly used by Shakespeare that has fourteen lines and a couplet at the end
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Tone
Definition
the emotion the writer is trying to put into his writing
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Anecdote
Definition
a short account of an event that is written humoruosly
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Ballad
Definition
a song or songlike poem that tells a story
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Denotation
Definition
the dictionary definition of something
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Nonfiction
Definition
a story or narrative of something that really happened
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Metaphor
Definition
a similarity not using like or as
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Personification
Definition
giving human qualities to something not human
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Epic simile
Definition
a comparison that is obvious in a long series of verse
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Cliche
Definition
a trite, stereotyped expression expressing an idea that has lost originality through overuse
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Fable
Definition
a short tale to teach a moral lesson
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Free Verse
Definition
a verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern
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Imagery
Definition
the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things
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