Literary Terms #1

Author's distinctive use of language to convey their personality

A brief story told to entertain or to make a point

character who provides a strong contrast to another character (Shrek to the donkey)

informal speech that people use in everyday language (Y'All come over to my house)

repetition of same or similar vowel sounds that end with different consonant sounds (low, tow)

Category of literary work characterized by a particular form or style (fiction/non-fiction)

set of facts and circumstances surrounding an event or a situation in a piece of literature

A short tale to tell a moral lesson often with animals or inanimate objects as characters

The choices an author makes when writing such as diction, syntax, and other literary devices

persuasive language

A story with two or more levels of meaning- a literal level and one or more symbolic levels

animal, object, etc. given human qualities or characteristics

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Excessive pride or vaulting ambition

perspective from which the story is told