Transcendentalist Keystone Lit Terms

An exaggeration or overstatement

The voice used by an author to tell/narrate a story or poem

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

Elements of literature that emphasize sound

The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words

Text that aims to present ideas and evoke an emotional experience in the reader

A trend or pattern of shared beliefs or practices that mark and approach to literature

Give reasons through an explanation to convey & represent the meaning or understanding of text.

The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.

The rhyming pattern, meter, grammar and imagery used by a poet to convey meaning.

A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (like or as) is used

Language that can't be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect/feeling