Literary Terms Review

Words that sound like what they mean.

Written expressions, characters, and situations that are structured or created similarly.

An apparently self-contradictory statement that contains a hidden truth.

The perspective from which the story is told.

The place and time in which the story takes place.

A situation ends up happening in a way other than what one would expect.

The Author’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject.

The author’s means of creating a realistic character.

Exaggeration.

A metaphor using the word “like” or “as.”

The impact of the story on the senses of the reader.

Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.

To conclude from indirect evidence.

Two contrasting characters who bring out traits in each other.

To express indirectly.

The universal message of the story.

Something is said but something else is meant or implied.

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human.

Comparison of unlike things.

The reader knows something a character in the story does not know.

A hint at what is to come.

Something that has an additional meaning beyond the literal meaning.

What is a reference to another text, moment in history, or topic from outside of the text.

The atmosphere of a scene or of the totality of a literary work.

Two generally contradictory terms that express a startling paradox.