Literary Terms

a character who provides a purposeful contrast to the protagonist

an author’s distinctive form of sentence construction

An author’s attitude toward a subject revealed through choice of words, details, etc.

Creates interest through a brief, indirect reference (not a quotation) to another literary work

the point in the story when the tension of the conflict reaches its highest point

Identify the perspective: Narrator is an outsider who can report only what he sees and hears

Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words in a line or sentence

Occurs when the audience or reader knows more than the characters know

A statement that appears to be contradictory, but which reveals a deeper (or higher) truth

a novel that follows the moral developemnt of a character from childhood to adulthood

When an authorintentionally suggests more than one interpretations of a situation

hints of future events through unusualcircumstances in the present

Descriptions of people or things stated in terms that appeal to the senses.

the feeling or atmosphere that the literary work gives off - e,g, eerie, ominous, mysterious

An exaggerated statement purposefully used to emphasize a point.

recurring ideas or literary devices that support the main theme of a literary work

a novel which takes the form of letters which pass between the main characters; e.g. Dracula

a literary technique in which the author gives human characteristics to non-human objects