front 1 bildungsroman | back 1 coming of age novel |
front 2 frame narrative | back 2 a story within a story |
front 3 conflict | back 3 man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self, man vs world, man vs supernatural, man vs technology |
front 4 foreshadowing | back 4 hinting at of indicating future events |
front 5 anthropomorphism | back 5 nonhuman things displaying human traits or behaviors |
front 6 theme | back 6 moral or lesson in a story, linked to author's pupose |
front 7 motif | back 7 a reoccurring idea, image, or symbol that develops a theme |
front 8 irony | back 8 situational, verbal, dramatic |
front 9 simile | back 9 comparing two things using like or as |
front 10 symbolism | back 10 using consistent symbols to represent ideas or qualities |
front 11 alliteration | back 11 a repetition of a letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent words |
front 12 anaphora | back 12 the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |
front 13 imagery | back 13 kinesthetic, organic, visual, auditory, gustatory, tactile, olfactory |
front 14 parallel structure | back 14 the repetition of a grammatical form within a sentence |
front 15 metaphor | back 15 a comparison of two unlike things by stating one as being the other |
front 16 extended metaphor | back 16 when an author uses a metaphor throughout a long passage |
front 17 personification | back 17 giving inanimate objects human qualities |
front 18 folklore | back 18 the traditional beliefs, stories, customs, and legends transmitted orally through generations |
front 19 foil | back 19 a character who acts as a contrast to another character |
front 20 allusion | back 20 a direct or indirect reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature |
front 21 diction | back 21 a writer's specific choice of words, phrases, figurative language, or sentence structures that creates meaning |
front 22 euphemism | back 22 mild or indirect words replacing harsher or more direct words |
front 23 dysphemism | back 23 a derogatory or unpleasant tern used instead of a pleasant or neutral term |
front 24 hyperbole | back 24 exaggeration used to emphasize a point |
front 25 paradox | back 25 a self-contradictory statement used to demonstrate truth |
front 26 colloquialism | back 26 slang |
front 27 connotation | back 27 association of emotion or tone connected to a word or phrase |
front 28 epigraph | back 28 a quotation at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme |
front 29 juxtaposition | back 29 unassociated words or ideas that are placed together creating an effect of surprise |
front 30 vernacular | back 30 the language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality |