Literary Terms For English Final

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Alliteration

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Repeated sound of the first consonant in a series of multiple words

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Allusion

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A brief and indirect reference to a person place thing or idea of historical cultural literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers.

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Characterization

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The process others used to develop characters and create images of the characters for the audience.

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Connotation

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The idea of feeling that a word brings out in you, words emotional charge.

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Consonance

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Repetition of similar consonant sounds

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Contrast

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Defer strikingly.

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Elegy

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A Mourning poem

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Extended metaphor

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A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.

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Figurative language

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Using figures of speech in order to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. Figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and hyperboles, go beyond the literal meanings of the words to give the readers new insights.

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Free verse

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Poetry without a rhyme or meter

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Image

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A word or phrase in a literary text that appeals directly to the readers taste, touch, hearing, sight, or smile. Images there for any vivid picturesque phrase that evokes a particular sensation in the reader's mind

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme within a line

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Juxtaposition

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Technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side-by-side in a narrative or poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

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Metaphor

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Comparison not using like or as

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Meter

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Is a unit of Rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats.

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Mood

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How the word makes you feel

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Onomatopoeia

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Word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting.

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Zip, rumble, click

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Paradox

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A statement that contradicts itself

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Personification

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Giving human attributes to non-human things

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Point of view

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The position of the narrator in relationship to the story

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Repetition

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Repeat the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer or to add emphasis

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Stanza

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A division of four or more lines having a fixed link, meter or rhyming scheme.

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Symbolism

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A figure of speech that is used when an author wants to create a certain mood or emotion in a work of literature. It is the use of an object, person, situation or word to represent something else, like an idea, in literature.

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Theme

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The authors central message

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Tone

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Shows the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. tone may be formal, informal, intimate, playful, serious, ironic, or many other possible attitudes.