Literary Terms: English 2

a funny dramatic work including crude characterization and outrageous, improbable situations.

Typical example of a certain person or thing...

A character's speech that is meant to be heard by the audience, but not the other characters

Paragraph in poetry is a...

Described as they eye of the camera or a fly on the wall; narrator tells the FACTS of the story

Vantage point or perspective from which a story is told

A recurring theme, subject, or idea...

The author's attitude expressed toward something in literature...

The peak of suspense and action in a story is...

A device that hints at coming events to build suspense is...

Words having a negative/positive connotation which is purposefully used to provoke the audience

How the reader feels about the text while reading...

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity...

A story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

A reference to another commonly known event, literature, movie, etc. is an...

Description that appeals to the five senses...

Author's choice in sentence structure

Pathos is...

A character who changes throughout the story is a...

Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis...

a long speech by one actor in a play or movie

A story that does NOT go in chronological order has a...

Repetition of consonant sounds

The struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions is...

A writer's or speaker's choice of words...

A word that imitates the sound it represents

Series of related events that make up a story or drama is...

Exaggeration

Final outcome of the conflict; comes at the end of the story

Narrator is a character in the story. Reader hears and sees only what the narrator hears/sees

Logos is...

Figure of speech that makes a comparison using like, as, or than

Story where the characters are usually animals, and there is a moral at the end.

A story that goes in chronological order has a...

Biased or misleading information used to promote or a particular political cause

Narrator plays no part in the story but zooms in on the thoughts/feelings of only one character

Ethos is...

The main character in a story is the...

A character's struggle against an outside force is...

Language that cannot be taken literally since it is written to create a special effect.

A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared...

The character who goes against the main character is...

Setting is...

The specific language tools that an author uses to carry out a rhetorical strategy.

Pattern of rhyming words in a poem (AA, BB, AA, BB...)

A character who remains the same throughout the story is a...

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

Giving an object human-like qualities

Narrator plays no part in story but can tell what more than one character is thinking/feeling

Worn-out idea or overused expression

A struggle between opposing needs, desires, or emotions within a single character is...

Words that are used to persuade a reader without having made a serious argument.

The central idea of a work of literature is known as the...