Literary Terms Review - List One

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Audience knows something that a character does not.

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The narrator is an unspecified entity or uninvolved person that conveys the story and is not a character of any kind.

Example: "Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun."

Example: "He gives his harness bells a shake.”

Example: ""She is not as young as she was."

Using a mild or gentle phrase instead of a blunt, embarrassing, or painful one

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Example: “Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again”

An elaborate or unusual comparison extended over a period of the text.

A reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature

Example: jumbo shrimp

Definition:

Example: “Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard.”

Example: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”.

The narrative is told from the perspective of a character involved in the action of the story.

Example: describing a totaled car as “just a little scratch”

The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.

The "mental pictures" that readers experience with a passage of literature

Example: "If we cannot strike offenders in the heart, let us strike them in the wallet."

Example: "Twenty eyes watched our every move."

The repetition of the sound of a vowel.

The speaker makes a statement in which its actual meaning differs sharply from meaning that the words ostensibly express

Example: "The scent of the rose rang like a bell through the garden."