Literary Terms

3rd person ominiscient

Conversation between two characters

A message about life or people

The opposite of what you expect to happen, happens

The reader/audience knows but the characters do not.

A story, actual or fictional, expressed orally or in text.

A category used to classify literary works, usually by form, technique or content.

Place together characters, situations, or ideas to show common and/or differing features.

Sensory Details

The fluency, rhythm, and liveliness in a text that make it unique to the other

An extended speech spoken by one speaker, either to others or as if alone.

Pattern of a poem such as a Sonnet: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

Emotion behind the meaning of a word

A literary approach that ridicules or examines human vice or weakness

What is prose?

The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.

Pathos

The center of interest or attention

The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits & personalities

Process or result of identifying the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another

Support provided to mark an assertion as reasonable - Defense of a Claim - True or False?

A recurring subject, theme, or idea in a literary work.

An exaggeration or overstatement

Word order in a sentence

Mother of Prefix and Suffix

Logos

Author's attitude using words

Support provided to mark an assertion as reasonable.

Reasoning out the meaning of a word

The conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad statement.

An essential technique used in literature

The feeling of the reader

Language based on where you live

Information used to influence people

A personal view, attitude or appraisal

Elements of fiction.

An implied or indirect reference in literature to person, place or event

Specific word choices in a text that strongly support the tone, mood, or meaning of the text.

A piece of information provided objectively, presented as true

A story using animals that have a moral to the story

To make understandable, plain or clear

Name Calling, Bandwagon, Red Herring, Testimonial

5 stressed 5 unstressed syllables in a poem

Comparison using "like, as, than, and resembles" is a metaphor.

Ethos

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

The subtle presence of a positive or negative approach toward a topic.

Clearly expressed or fully stated in the actual test

The method an author uses to reveal characters and their various traits & personalities

A device in literature where an object represents an idea