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Literary Terms
Literary Terms
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English
10th Grade
12/16/2008

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Alliteration
Definition
the repetition of an initial consonant sound
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Allusion
Definition
a reference to a literary work, art, history, person, etc.
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Anachronism
Definition
the mention or use of a person or object in a context when the person or place could not have existed
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Antithesis
Definition
a direct opposite of idea
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Aphorism
Definition
a short, wise, important statement about life issues; an adage
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Apostrophe
Definition
a comment in a drama or a line in a poem addressed to a person who is imagined, dead, or absent; a comment in a drama or line in a poem addressed to a quality
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Blank verse
Definition
unrhymed verse (poetry) written in iampic pentameters; most commonly associated with Shakesphere
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Hubris
Definition
In tragedy, the fault of having too much pride and over-confidence
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Hyperbole
Definition
an extreme exaggeration
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Idealism
Definition
a philosophy in which the viewer/believer sees the world the way he/she wants the world to be
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Idiom
Definition
a word or expression not to be taken literally; the intended meaning is different from the literal meaning
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Irony-dramatic
Definition
when a reader, character, or audience learns information that certain characters don't know
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Irony-situational
Definition
when a reader or character expects one action to occur BUT an entirely different action occurs
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Irony-verbal
Definition
when a character/narrator says one thing but means the opposite
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Jargon
Definition
diction used by a particular profession or group; pretentious; obscure diction
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Malapropism
Definition
an unintentional (sometimes intentional!) incorrect use of one word instead of another word that sounds similar
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Metaphor
Definition
an imaginative comparison of two UNLIKE objects without using like or as
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
a word which imitates the noise or action
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Oxymoron
Definition
one or two words that combine two seemingly contradictory statements
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Paradox
Definition
a seemingly contradictory statement
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Parody
Definition
A piece of writing that imitates or mocks the style, structure, tone, etc. of another writer
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Personification
Definition
the giving of human qualities to non human things
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Protagonist
Definition
the main character in a play, novel, movie; the character who demonstrates the most significant change
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Simile
Definition
a comparison of two UNLIKE objects using like or as
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Sonnet
Definition
a fourteen line poem
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Symbol
Definition
a concrete object that represents an abstract idea
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