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| Definition: Metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison. |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man |
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| A simile is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words "like", "as", or "than" |
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| A figure of speech in which the name of one thing is used for another which it suggests or is closely related to. |
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| he repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words. For example, Robert Frost’s poem “Out, out—” contains the alliterative phrase “sweet-scented stuff.” |
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| A reference within a literary work to a historical, literary, or biblical character, place, or event. For example, the title of William Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury alludes to a line from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of nearby words. For example, the line “The monster spoke in a low mellow tone” (from Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Lotos-Eaters”) contains assonance in its repetition of the “o” sound. |
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| An author’s deliberate use of hints or suggestions to give a preview of events or themes that do not develop until later in the narrative. Images such as a storm brewing or a crow landing on a fence post often foreshadow ominous developments in a story. |
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| A recurring structure, contrast, or other device that develops a literary work’s major themes . For example, shadows and darkness are a motif in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities, a novel that contains many gloomy scenes and settings. |
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| A play on words that uses the similarity in sound between two words with distinctly different meanings. For example, the title of Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest is a pun on the word earnest, which means serious or sober, and the name “Ernest.” |
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| An object, character, figure, place, or color used to represent an abstract idea or concept. |
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| A fundamental, universal idea explored in a literary work. |
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| The general atmosphere created in a story, or the author’s or narrator’s attitude toward the story or the subject |
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| a method of storytelling in which the author know the thoughts and feelings of ALL the characters in the story. |
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| a Method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of a single character while the others are presented only externally. |
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| is a narrative mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the writing. |
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| the time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs. Settings include the background, atmosphere or environment in which characters live and move, and usually include physical characteristics of the surroundings |
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| Literary technique that provides a textual equivalent to the stream of a fictional character's conciousness. creates the impression that the reader is eavesdropping on the flow concious experience in the character's mind gaining intimate access to their private toughts. |
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| the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype. a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches. |
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| 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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| erbal irony occurs when either the speaker means something totally different than what he is saying or the audience realizes, because of their knowledge of the particular situation to which the speaker is referring, that the opposite of what a character is saying is true. |
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| occurs when facts are not known to the characters in a work of literature but are known by the audience |
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| literary term for the events a story comprises, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, a sequence, through cause and effect, or by coincidence. |
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| in literature and drama, the method of character development in which the author simply tells what the character is like |
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