Allegory

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Allegory

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is a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea or a generlization about life; often have a strong moral or lesson.

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Allusion

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is a literary reference to afamiliar person, place, thing, or event.

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Analogy

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is comparison of two or more similar objects, suggesting that if they are alike in other ways as well.

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Antagonist

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is the person or thing working against the protagonist, or hero, of the work.

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Autobiography

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is an author's account or story of her or his own life.

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Biography

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is the person's life written by another person.

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Characterization

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is the method an author uses to reveal characters and their personalities.

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Comedy

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is a literature in which human errors or problems appear funny.

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Context

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is the set of facts or circumstances surronding an event situation ina piece of literature.

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Dialogue

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is the conversation carried by the characters in a literary work.

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Diction

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is an author's choice of words based on their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

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Didactic

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literature instructs or presents a moral or religous statement.

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Drama

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is the form known as plays; but drama also refers to the type of serious play that is often concerned with the leading character's relationship to society.

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Empathy

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is putting yourself in someone else's place imagining how that must feel. The phrase "What would you in my shoes? is a request for one person to emphasize with another.

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Epic

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is along narrative poem that tells of deeeds and adventure of a hero.

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Epitaph

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is a short poem or in conflictverse written in memory of someone.

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Epitet

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is a word or phrase used in place of a person's name; it is characteristic of that.

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Essay

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is a piece of prose that expresses an individual's point of view; usuallyy it is a series of closely related paragraphs that combine to make a complete piece of writing.

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Fable

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a short fictional narrative that teaches a lesson. It usually includes animals that talk and act like people.

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Figurative Language

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is language used to create a speacial effect or feeling.

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Flashback

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is returning to an earlier time (in a story) for the purpose making something in the present more clear.

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Foil

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is someone who serves as a contrast or challenge to another character.

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Foreshadowing

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is giving hints or clues of what is to come later in a story.

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Genre

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refers to a catagory or type of literature on its style, from, and content. The mystery novel is a literary genre.

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Hubris

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derived from the greek word hubris, means "excessive pride." In Greek tragedy, hubris is often viewed as the flaw that leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.

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Imagery

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is the use of words to create a certain picture in the reader's mind. Imagery is usually based on sensory details.

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Irony

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is using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning. There are three kinds of Irony.

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Memoir

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is writing based on the writers memory of a particular time, place, or incident.

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Mood

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is the feeling a text arouses in the reader;happiness, peacefulness, sadness and so on.

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Moral

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is the particular value or lesson the author is trying to get across to the reader.

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Motif

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is the term for an often-repeated idea or theme in literature. In The adventures of Finn, Huck is constantly in conflict with the "civilization" world. This conflict becomes a motif throught the novel.

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Myth

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is a traditional story that attempts to justify a certain practice or belief or to explain a natural phenomenon.

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Novel

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is a lengthy fictional story with a plot that is revealed by the speech, action, and thoughts of the characters.

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Novella

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is a prose work longer than the standard short story, but shorter and less complex than a full length novel.

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Oxymoron

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is a combination of contradictory terms as in jumbo shrimp, though love, and cruel kindness.

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Paradox

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is a statement that seems contrary to common sense, yet may in fact, be true: " The coach considered this a good loss."

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Plot

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is the action or sequence of events in a story. It is usually a series of related incidents that build upon one another as the story develops. There are five basic elements in plot line.

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Plotline

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is the graphic display of the action or events in a story: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

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Point of View

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is the vantage point from which the story is told. In the firstperson point of view, the story is told by one of the characters: " I remember the summer I turned sixteen." In the thirdperson point of view, the story is told by one of the characters: "The old man shuffled across the street."

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Protagonist

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is the main character or hero of the story.

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Romance

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a novel or other prose narrative depicting heroic or marvelous deeds, pageantry, romantic exploits, etc., usually in a historical or imaginary setting.

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Satire

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is a literary tone used to make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting or subject of the attack.

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Setting

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is the time and place in which the action of a literary work occurs.

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Soliquy

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is a speech delivered by a character when he or she is alone on stage. It is as though the character is thinking out load.

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Symbol

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is a person, a place, a thing or an event used to represent something else:the dove is a symbol of peace. Characters in literature may be symbols of good or evil.

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Theme

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is the statement about life a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing. In most cases, the theme will be implied rather than directly spelled out

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Tone

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is the overall feeling, or effect, created by writers use of words. This feeling may be serious, humorous, or satiric.

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Tragedy

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is a literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw or by forces beyond his or her control.