front 1 Allegory | back 1 A story told on two levels and intended to teach a moral lesson |
front 2 Anepestic | back 2 Metric foo consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable. uu/ |
front 3 Anecdote | back 3 A very short story told to make a point |
front 4 Antagonist | back 4 The main adversary of the hero/heroine, or protagonist |
front 5 Antithesis | back 5 The use of parallel structure to present oppositional ideas |
front 6 Apostrophe | back 6 To adress a person not present; or to personify an object or trait and address th epersonified thing |
front 7 Archetype | back 7 A universal symbol or symbol that crossed many cultures |
front 8 Auditory Imagery | back 8 Language/words appealing to the sense of sound/hearing |
front 9 Blank Verse | back 9 Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter |
front 10 Choleric | back 10 Medieval bodily humor- angry |
front 11 Conceit | back 11 An extended metaphor. A comparison extending throughout a poem, paragraph, or section of work |
front 12 Dactylic | back 12 Metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. uu |
front 13 Didactic | back 13 Having a teaching purpose, The Bible has didactic books in it, sermons, some stories |
front 14 Dramatic Irony | back 14 Situation is which reader/viewer shares with the narrator knowledge of a situation or intention unknown to one or more of the characters |
front 15 Elegy | back 15 Poetry or speech whick lements the loss of a person or sometimes of an era or aspect of culture |
front 16 Enjambment | back 16 Run-on lines of poetry. When a thought in not completed in one line so the reader has to read into the next line to get to the end of the thought. |
front 17 End-stopped line | back 17 Line of poetry ending in a perios, question mark, exclamation point, or semicolon |
front 18 Epigram | back 18 Short, witty saying |
front 19 Epiphany | back 19 The appearance or manifestation of a deity; or a moment of understandinf and sudden insight into reality or the truth |
front 20 Exposition | back 20 Text or portion of a text which explains motives, action, definitions, etc. Action doesn't move forward |
front 21 Euphemism | back 21 Nice or polite word used to replace a more direct or blunt one |
front 22 Farce | back 22 Low comdey; comedy which has clowning and slapstick |
front 23 Flashback | back 23 Interrupting a narrative sequence with a recollection of an image or scene from the past |
front 24 Genre | back 24 The form a text has- poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction |
front 25 Gustatory Imagery | back 25 Language or images appealing to the sense of taste |
front 26 Hubris | back 26 Ancient Greek term for "pride" or "ego" |
front 27 Hyperbole | back 27 Exaggeration for effect |
front 28 Iambic | back 28 A metrical foot consisting of n unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. u/ |
front 29 Iambic Pentameter | back 29 A ten-syllable line in which the even-numbered syllables are stressed |
front 30 Internal Rhyme | back 30 Rhyming two words within a single line of poetry. u/ |
front 31 Irony | back 31 Having the opposite of what one expects to happen actually happen |
front 32 Litotes or Understatement | back 32 Understatement for emphasis |
front 33 Malapropism | back 33 The misuse of words, especially words that sound like other words |
front 34 Melancholy | back 34 Medieval bodily humor- sad, depressed |
front 35 Meter | back 35 The thythm of a poem; includes how many syllables each line has and which ones are stressed or not |
front 36 Metonymy | back 36 A figure of speech in which one word of phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated |
front 37 Myth | back 37 A story that seeks to explain procesed of nature, the creation of the world and human race, or traditional customs, political institutions, or religious rites |
front 38 Narrative Viewpoint | back 38 The stance from which a story is told |
front 39 Olfactory imagery | back 39 Language or images appealing to the sense of smell |
front 40 Oxymoron | back 40 Two opposite words together forming a compound word or phrase |
front 41 Parable | back 41 A short story with a moral message; often allegorical |
front 42 Paradox | back 42 A statement that is illogical or contadictory but nevertheless true |
front 43 Parody | back 43 A humorous imitation of a serious literary work or form |
front 44 Pastoral | back 44 A literary piece that idealizes life in the country |
front 45 Phlegmatic | back 45 Medieval bodily humor- dull |
front 46 Protagonist | back 46 The hero or heroine in a story |
front 47 Rhetorical | back 47 Persuassive; a style, form , and approach intended to persuade |
front 48 Rhymed Couplet | back 48 Two rhymed iambic pentemeter lines forming a unit |
front 49 Sanguine | back 49 Medievel bodily humor- energetic, cheerful, positive |
front 50 Satire | back 50 Humor directed at making a point about human nature; attacks human faults and teaches ethics through humor |
front 51 Shakespearean Sonnet | back 51 Poem of 14 lines in which the structure is 3 quatrains followed by a couplet in which the main idea or central message is stated |
front 52 Stanza | back 52 Group of lines of poetry forming a unit |
front 53 Symbolism | back 53 Having one thing stand for another, especially for a complex of interrelated concepts |
front 54 Synecdoche | back 54 Figure of speech in which a part of an object is used to represent the whole |
front 55 Syntax | back 55 Sentence structure |
front 56 Tactile imagery | back 56 Language or image which appeal to the sense of touch or feeling |
front 57 Tone | back 57 The attitude an author expresses towards his subject and/ or audience |
front 58 Trochaic | back 58 A metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. lu |
front 59 Verbal Irony | back 59 The meaning indented by a speaker differs from the meaning understood by one or more of the other characters or by the listener |
front 60 Verse | back 60 Single line of poetry |
front 61 Alliteration | back 61 the first sound of a word is repeated several times |
front 62 Allusion | back 62 a reference to something from a different story, such as referencing Noah's flood to let the reader know just how torrential it is raining. |
front 63 Anachronism | back 63 when something happens that should be attributed to a different time from when it actually happened. |
front 64 Anaphora | back 64 type of repetition. |
front 65 Anastrophe | back 65 traditional sentence structure. |
front 66 Anthropomorphism | back 66 where you apply human traits or qualities to something that isn't human-like animals, objects, or the weather. |
front 67 Aphorism | back 67 universally accepted truth expressed concisely |
front 68 Assonance | back 68 In songs, poems, and literature to create flowing sounds that grab the reader/listener's attention and are pleasing to the ear |
front 69 Caesura | back 69 involves using a fractured sentence where two different parts are distinguishable but form one whole. (sometimes uses II to indicate the breaks) |
front 70 Consonance | back 70 where consonant sounds are repeated within a sentence or phrase. |
front 71 Chiasmus | back 71 Greek word that means “diagonal arrangement.” The phrases must be related, or it’s not chiasmus. |
front 72 Colloquialism | back 72 used in speech when we want to be informal. In literature, it might provide a setting or give information about where a character comes from. |
front 73 Diction | back 73 author's word choice in speech or description. |
front 74 Epigram | back 74 the author cites a quotation from another work of literature. It is often put into italics |
front 75 Foreshadowing | back 75 the author subtly lets the reader know the ending or an upcoming event |
front 76 Hypophora | back 76 a character is speaking out loud, asks a question and then immediately answers it themselves. |
front 77 Isocolon | back 77 takes two more phrases or clauses that have a similar structure, rhythm, or length and lines them up on top of each other. You often see this in poems, and you'll also spot it in advertising, particularly brand slogans. |
front 78 Imagery | back 78 creates a visual representation of an action, idea, or thing to appeal to the reader's senses. |
front 79 Juxtaposition | back 79 you place different story elements side by side, to provide contrast and highlight the differences. |
front 80 Metaphor | back 80 an object is something else, which brings new meaning to the original object |
front 81 Motif | back 81 a repeated symbol, idea, or structure within a literary work to emphasize the theme. |
front 82 Onomonatopoeia | back 82 When you want to show that your character is problem-solving and has reached a conclusion. Or, when you're giving a speech and want to provide an answer to a question your audience wants to hear. |
front 83 Personification | back 83 the writer gives inanimate objects or ideas human traits, like the weather, or a feeling |
front 84 Point of View | back 84 whoever is telling your story. |
front 85 Polysyndeton | back 85 the art of using several conjunctions (or connecting words) in succession. |
front 86 Similie | back 86 a comparison of two different things |
front 87 Soliloquy | back 87 when a character speaks their thoughts out loud, usually alone and to the audience, rather than to another character. |
front 88 Zoomorphism | back 88 give animal-like qualities to anything that is not that particular animal. |