Literary Terms 2022

 I have a million things to do. 

 Statement of opposites, not synonyms. This, not that. These, not those. You, not me.

 Animal characters portray human vanity, greed, slothfulness, or other personality trait or moral defect. 

Natural order of time; one way to organize writing 

Marking a poem for its rhyme and meter (beat)

 Phrases not to be taken word for word such as "penny for your thought

 One line imitates another line in how it is built. Repeating a pattern makes it stick.

Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe, a larger than life story exaggerating strength

3-line poem in which the 1st line has 5 syllables, the 2nd line 7, and the 3rd line 5.

 Another way to organize writing: this is why that happened. 

Bite off more than you can chew; get yourself into more than you can handle.

 She found my minor crisis seriously funny. 

14-line poem often rhymed ABABCDCDEFEFGG; 1 stanza

 I never use verbal irony. Ever.

Type of fiction based on a real place in a real era; story is derived from actual events. 

 Metaphor that continues: All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; 

 Nobody goes to that restaurant because it is too crowded.

 Another way to organize writing: This is what's wrong; that is how to fix it. 

 In a play (drama) marked by brackets [Romeo texts Juliet].

 Another way to organize writing: This is that, but these are those.

 Varied font size and style that calls attention to main ideas and organization

Jump to the future of a plot, skipping a long period of time, such as when a movie shows Harry Potter sending his kids

 Usually 1st person or 3rd person narration.

Substituting a part of something for what it really is: Here come the suits (executives). Going to the track (race)

 A group of lines in a poem

Roses are red and dandelions yellow. I'm sick in bed, eating lemon-lime jello: ABAB. 

 Hunger stole upon me so slowly that at first I was not aware of what hunger really meant. 

 Sweat so slick a tick slipped.

 Type of question that doesn't need an answer: Do you want to be grounded for life?

 Writer seems to be on a particular side and may not even realize how obvious it is to the readers. 

Plot, characters, and setting bloom from the writer's imagination.