Lit Terms Part 2
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Structure
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The arrangement of a work; the relationship of the parts of a work related to the whole
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Metaphor
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figure of speech comparing two different things (Katniss/Mockingjay)
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Simile
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A comparison using like or as
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Allegory
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A narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities
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Apostrophe
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A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive, present, and able to respond
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Irony
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A contrast between expectation and reality
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metonymy
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A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.
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Hyperbole
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An extreme exaggeration
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Paradox
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a contradiction or dilemma
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personification
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A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
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Synecdoche
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A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.
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Symbolism
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A device in literature in which an object represents an idea
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Understatement
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A statement that says less than what is meant
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Atmosphere/Mood
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Describes the general feeling of the story
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Exposition
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Background information presented in a literary work
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Internal conflict
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A struggle within a single character (Hamlet)
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External Conflict
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A struggle between a character and an outside force
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Rising action
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Events leading up to the climax
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Climax
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Most exciting moment of the story; the peak
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Falling action
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Events after the climax, a.k.a. the resolution
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Denouement
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an outcome, solution, or the unraveling of a plot
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Epilogue
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a short passage added at the end of a literary work
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Phrase
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A group of words that have no complete subject and verb
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Pronoun
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A word that takes the place of a noun
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Clause
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A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb
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Antecedent
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A preceding event
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Deduce
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To reach a conclusion from the information given
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Infer
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A conclusion one can draw from the presented details
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Abstract
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difficult to understand
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Colloquial
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ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing
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Vernacular
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Everyday language
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Obscene
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Disgusting, repulsive, offensive to one's feelings
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Profane
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Showing disrespect toward God or sacred things
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Simple sentence
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A sentence made up of one complete subject and one complete predicate
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Compound sentence
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A sentence with two or more independent clauses
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Complex sentence
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..., A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause
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CD-CX
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a compound-complex sentence
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Overt
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obvious or easily observed
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Covert
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Hidden
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1st person
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POV in the action; I, Me, We
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2nd person
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Uses \"you\" and \"your\"
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3rd person
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Point of view which is limited to one character only.
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satire
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a literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision
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motif
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A recurring element, such as an image, theme, or type of incident.
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Comedy of manners
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A type of play that pokes fun at the social conventions of the upper class is called
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Anti-Hero
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A non-hero, given the vocation of failure, frequently humorous
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Epiphany
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A moment of great insight
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Connotation
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Associations a word calls to mind.
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Foil
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A character who acts as a contrast to another character
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Parable
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A short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory
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Social Novel
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concerned with the effect of societal institutions and social conditions on humanity
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Buildungsroman
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a story that shows the growth and maturation of the main character (maybe hamlet)
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coming of age novel
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another name for Bildungsroman
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Catharis
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an emotional cleansing or release of emotional tensions, fears, or pity
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Hamartia
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tragic flaw which causes a character's downfall
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Versimiltude
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the sense that what one reads is \"real\" or at least realistic and believable
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Dramatic irony
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A circumstance in which the audience or reader knows more about a situation than a character.
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soliloquy
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A literary or dramatic speech spoken by a solitary character
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utopia
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an ideal society
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dystopia
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imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful
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pathos
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A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work
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parallelism
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A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures
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farce
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a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations.
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theater of the absurd
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play written to show the absurdity of life by having absurd situations
