Literary Terms

A writer's aim or goal

Definition: the reader and some of the characters have information other characters do not have

Definition: stories based on real events or characters from long ago

Definition: the series of events related to a central conflict

Definition: a comparison in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another

Definition: a reference to a well-known person, event, or work from history or literature

Definition: a story of a person's life, told by someone other than that person

Definition: brief stories, often with animal characters, told to express a moral

Definition: the intentional use of false arguments to persuade

Definition: emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas

Definition: the author's choice of words

Definition: the main character has to take action or make a decision

During this time, Europe experienced a rebirth in learning, literature, and the arts:

Definition: the act of presenting hints to events that will occur later in a story

Definition: the act of creating or describing a character

Definition: language that creates pictures by appealing to the 5 senses

Definition: a recurring element in one or more works of literature

Definition: a story told through characters played by actors

Definition: the repetition of initial consonant sounds

Definition: a regular rhythmic pattern in poetry

Definition: conversation between two or more characters

Who is considered to be the greatest dramatist the world has ever known?

Definition: a long story, often told in verse, involving heros and gods

Definition: the emotion created in the reader by a literary work

Persuasion based on arousing emotions