Literary Terms Review

A comparison of two unlike things. 

The repetition of lines throughout a poem to form a pattern. 

How the WRITER feels about his subject that comes through how they write about a topic.

How the READER feels about the story. 

Where a story takes place. 

A writer's vivid description that helps the reader visualize a scene. 

Can be verbal, situational, or dramatic and results in "being one thing and meaning another."

A type of poem that has a specific rhyme and meter and follows the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG

A literary device where an author ridicules specific people, groups, or aspect of society.

The ending of a literary work where all conflict is hopefully resolved. 

When the author hints at what will happen later in the story. 

A reference to something from another literary work, art, history, or religion. 

The most exciting part of a story where all of the main conflict comes together. 

Sets the stage for a literary work and what will happen. 

A word that describes words that represent sounds. 

A type of literary work that makes fun of another work, its author, or the ideas present.

When authors give human traits to animals or other nonliving things. 

A minor story that runs inside the main story. 

An abstraction that represents the central idea of the story. 

A concrete or physical object that represents an abstract concept. 

A system that literature falls into based on specific conventions that show differences.

Shows the reader specific events that happened before the current action of the story.  

Tells the story either in the first, second, or third person point of view. 

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."