Literary Terms Part 2

writing in poetry 

the repetition of ending sound

The person telling the story.  May or may not be a character in the story.  

The angle from which a story is told:  first-person/ second-person/ third-person limited...

Attaching human characteristics to something that is not human.

The part of a plot that lead to the climax.

“beat” musicality inwriting

Saying the opposite of what you mean to pretend to praise someone.  Designed to hurt.

Words imitating sounds.

a long speech that is unheard by other characters in a drama (thinking aloud)

A comparison using like or as.  Hungry as a bear.  

A literary work to criticize foolishness of an individual/society: George Orwell's Animal Farm

the combination of two words that means the opposite: a deafening silence, burning cold.

Writing that isn’t poetry. 

Where the story takes place.

the distinctive style or manner of expression of an author or of a character

Something representing something else.

Sequence of events in a story where each event causes the next event to happen.  

a word, line, verse, number,sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Eve, Wow.

a line, group of lines,or parts of a line repeated in poetry or song.  

deliberate confusion of words based upon similarity of sound: waist/waste.

Preconceived idea of what a person or thing is like.

A kind of folk tale that widely exaggerated a character’s strength and ability. 

A statement or an expression that seems to contradict itself.  "I'm nobody."

The good person in a story.  Usually the central character.

The main idea of a story.“Friendship” is an idea, but “Friends stick together” is a __________.

A use of language that differs from ordinary use in order to emphasize meaning or to persuade