Literary Terms Mid-Term

repetition of vowel sounds...

Ten-syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed...

Multiple instances of a word of phrase, often in succession, used for emphasis...

emotional atmosphere of a given piece of writing...

A reference to something or someone in a text, often literary...

used to describe a traditional story that typically aims to explain a natural or social phenomenon...

long speech by one character in a play or story...

huge exaggeration...

The action in the story driven by conflict...

implied meaning that’s associated with a word ...can be + or -

literary medium distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm...

Giving inanimate object human characteristics...

A comparison that doesn’t use “like” or “as”....

character or symbol recognized across cultures...

A parallel between disparate (dissimilar) ideas, people, things, or events ...

resolution of the conflict in a plot...

A work that makes fun of something or someone...

technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later...

Unrhymed lines of poetry usually in iambic pentameter...

helps the reader imagine how something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or taste...

poem mourning the dead...

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words...

a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions...

use of a word in a way that plays on its different meanings...

A major character who opposes the protagonist ...

Mr. Hill's Favorite Author is...

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that may prove to be well founded or true...

words that sound like what they mean such as “buzz.”

author’s attitude toward his or her subject...

the main element that creates a plot....

long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure...

A comparison that uses “like” or “as”...

widely used among speakers of a certain language and whose figurative meaning is different from its literal meaning...

to explain how two things differ you compare and....

pair of rhyming lines in a poem...

A humorous, exaggerated imitation of another work...

Poetry with no set meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme...

overall feeling of a work...

moment of sudden realization or clarity

A story in which the characters represent abstract qualities or ideas.

pairing of seemingly contradictory terms...

A fourteen-line poem written iambic pentameter...

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem...

means by which an author establishes character...

theme or pattern that recurs in a work...

story that illustrates a moral often using animals....

an author's word choice....

The central idea of a work...

point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak...

main character of a novel, play, or story...