Lit Terms

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ALLEGORY

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A NARRATIVE IN WHICH CHARACTERS & SETTINGS; ABSTRACT IDEAS OR MORAL QUALITIES

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ALLUSION(REFERENCE)

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A REFERENCE IN LITERATURE TO A STATEMENT, A PERSON, PLACE, THING, AN EVENT, HISTORY, RELIGION, MYTHOLOGY, & SPORTS

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ALLITERATION

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CONSTANT SOUNDS USUALLY AT THE BEGINNINS OF WORDS THAT ARE CLOSE

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ANALOGY

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COMPARISON MADE BETWEEN 2 THINGS

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ANTITHESIS

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PARALLEL STRUCTURE + CONTRAST

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ANTAGONIST

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BAD GUY

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ASSONANCE(SOUND DEVICE)

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VOWEL SOUNDS REPEATED OVER & OVER AGAIN

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CARICATURE

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AN OVER EXAGERATION

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CLICHE

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AN OVERUSED PHRASE

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CONNOTATION

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ALL THE MEANINGS, ASSOCIATIONS OR EMOTIONS

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CONTRAST

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COMPARISON BETWEEN THE DIFFERENCES

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DICTION
*FORMAL V. COLLOQUIAL
*ABSTRACT V. CONCRETE
*POETIC

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A WRITER'S OR SPEAKERS CHOICE OF WORDS OR STYLE

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DIDACTIC LANGUAGE

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IS WORDS THAT PAINT THE HOUSE
*refers to literature or other types of art that are instructional or informative.

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EMPATHY

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A COMPREHENSION OF REALITY. HAVING THE SAME EMOTIONS
*1: the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it
2: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner

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EPIPHANY

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A JOLT OF REALIZATION

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GENRE

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A CATEGORY OF BOOKS, TAPES, OR CDS

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HYPERBOLE

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FIGURE OF SPEECH THAT USES EXAGGERATION

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IMAGERY

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LANGUAGE THAT APPEALS TO THE SENSES

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IRONY

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CONTRAST BETWEEN BEING WITH THE TRUTH OR LIES
*a literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. Many times it is the exact opposite of what it appears to be.

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MALAPROPISM

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MISUSE OF A WORD FOR HUMOR
*the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase ; especially : the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context

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METAPHOR

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FIGURE OF SPEECH THAT MAKES A COMPARISON
*a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but, literally, it is not. In connecting one object, event, or place, to another, a metaphor can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important.

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ONOMATPOEIA

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USE OF A WORD WHOSE SOUND IMITATES OR SUGGESTS ITS MEANING

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OXYMORON

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A TWO WORD CONTRADICTION

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PARADOX

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SEEMS TO BE CONTRIDICTION

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PARALLEL STRUCTURE

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REPETITION OF SYNTACIAL ELEMENTS

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PARODY

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A STYLE THAT MAKES FUN OF ANOTHER WRITERS STYLE

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PASTORAL

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DEALS WITH COUNTRY LIFE
*portraying or expressive of the life

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PATHOS

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WORDS THAT CREATE SORROW & SADNESS

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PERSONIFICATION

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KIND OF METAPHOR A NON-HUMAN OR QUALITY
*A figure of speech where animals, ideas or inorganic objects are given human characteristics.

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PUN

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PLAY ON WORDS THAT SOUND ALIKE
*the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound

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PROTAGONIST

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MAIN CHARACTER IN FICTION OR DRAMA

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REALISM

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LIFE & IT'S RAWEST FORM

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REPTITION

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A QUESTION THAT CAN HAVE DIFFERENT ANSWERS

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RHETORICAL QUESTION

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REPETION OF ACCENTED VOWEL SOUNDS

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RHYME(SOUND DEVICE)

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A BEAT OF MUSIC OR POETRY

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RHYTHM

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A SWEET TALK

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SARCASM

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UNDERSTATEMENT & TONE TO CAST A NEGATIVE SPIN

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SATIRE

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DEPICTION
*a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn

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SIMILE

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FIGURE OF SPEECH

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SYMBOL

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PERSON, PLACE, EVENT OR THING THAT STANDS OUT
*a symbol is a word or object that stands for another word or object.

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SYNECDOCHE

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a word that refers to a part of something to mean the whole.EXAMPLE OF SYNECDOCHE:'All hands on deck' is an example in which 'hands' is used to mean 'people'.

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SYNTAX

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GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURE OF WORDS

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UNDERSTATEMENT

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EXAGGERATION (LESSENING SIGNIFICANCE)

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DENOTATION

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LITERAL DEFINITION OF ALL WORDS

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CONNOTATION

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EMOTIONAL MEANING OF A WORD