Literary Terms

hints of future events through unusualcircumstances in the present

When an authorintentionally suggests more than one interpretations of a situation

the feeling or atmosphere that the literary work gives off - e,g, eerie, ominous, mysterious

a character who provides a purposeful contrast to the protagonist

An exaggerated statement purposefully used to emphasize a point.

the point in the story when the tension of the conflict reaches its highest point

recurring ideas or literary devices that support the main theme of a literary work

An author’s attitude toward a subject revealed through choice of words, details, etc.

a novel that follows the moral developemnt of a character from childhood to adulthood

Occurs when the audience or reader knows more than the characters know

an author’s distinctive form of sentence construction

Descriptions of people or things stated in terms that appeal to the senses.

A statement that appears to be contradictory, but which reveals a deeper (or higher) truth

a literary technique in which the author gives human characteristics to non-human objects

Creates interest through a brief, indirect reference (not a quotation) to another literary work

Identify the perspective: Narrator is an outsider who can report only what he sees and hears

a novel which takes the form of letters which pass between the main characters; e.g. Dracula

Repeated consonant sounds occurring at the beginning of words in a line or sentence