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1. Literary Term is _______________________________
• Definition:
A story, poem, or picture that can be
interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning,
typically a moral or political one
Examples:
Definition:
- stories that use characters
to represent abstract
qualities
- often teaches religious or
moral lessons
Examples:
- Young Goodman Brown by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Lord Of The Flies by William
Golding
- Moby Dick by Herman
Melville
- Divine Comedy by Dante
Alighieri
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell
The short story “Animal Farm” represents the
events leading up to Soviet totalitarianism in
Russia by Stalin in a farm setting.
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
• Examples:
– The Faerie Queene, Edmund
Spenser
– The Pilgrim’s Progress, John
Bunyan
– The Divine Comedy, Dante
– Lord of the Flies, William Golding
– Moby Dick, Herman Melville
– Animal Farm, George Orwell
– ???? is a form of extended
metaphor, in which objects,
persons, and actions in a
narrative, are equated with the
meanings that lie outside the
narrative itself.
• The underlying meaning has moral,
social, religious, or political
significance, and characters are often
personifications of abstract ideas as
charity, greed, or envy.
???? of
the four
elements:
In The Divine Comedy, Dante, symbolizing
humankind, is taken by Virgil the poet on a
journey through Hell, Purgatory and
Paradise
2. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
????? is the
repetition of initial
sounds in
neighboring words.
• ????? refers to the repetition
of a particular sound in the
first syllables of a series of
words and/or phrases.
• Ex.
1. Becky’s beagle barked and
bayed, becoming bothersome
for Billy.
2. Peter’s piglet pranced
priggishly
Examples:
- Sweet smell of success
- Bigger the better
- A dime a dozen
- Jump for joy
• The repetition of initial
consonant sounds in a
series of words
The occurrence of the same
letter or sound at
the beginning of adjacent
or closely connected words.
Examples:
• Sam saw a spider sliding down the stairs.
• Paul picked plums from Patty’s plum patch.
• Example:
-Sally sells seashells by
the seashore.
-Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers
3. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
• An expression designed to
call something to mind
without mentioning it
explicitly; an indirect or
passing reference - an
_______ to Shakespeare
• - a classical ___________
• The practice of making
such references, esp. as
an artistic device
•
Examples:
"I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and
sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the Planet Earth." ~
Senator Barrack Obama, speech at a fund-raiser for
Catholic charities, October 16, 2008
Barrack Obama makes an ____________ to Superman.
She transformed her backyard to look like the Garden of
Eden.
This is an ____________ to the Bible.
His wife was his Achilles' heel.
This is an ____________ to mythology and this has a
different name know as a mythological ____________
Definition - is a brief reference to a
person, event, or place, real or
fictitious, or to a work of art within
a work of art. An _________ may be
drawn from history, geography,
literature, or religion
Examples:
1. Andy Warhol, a 20th-century
American artist most famous for his
pop-art images of Campbell soup cans
and of Marilyn Monroe, commented
about the explosion of media coverage
by saying, “In the future, everyone
will be world-famous for 15 minutes.“
Today, when someone receives a
great deal of media attention for
something fairly trivial, and he or she
is said to be experiencing his or her
“15 minutes of fame”, the ????? is to
Andy Warhol's famous saying.
2. _______ Martin Luther King, Jr., ________ to
the Gettysburg Address in starting his "I
Have a Dream" speech by saying 'Five score
years ago..."; his hearers were immediately
reminded of Abraham Lincoln's "Four score
and seven years ago", which opened the
Gettysburg Address. King's ????? effectively
called up parallels in two historic moments
4. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
• “the adversary of
the hero or
protagonist of a
drama or other
literary work” –
dictionary.com
Examples:
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The ????? of the Harry Potter series by J.K.
Rowling is Voldemort (with the exception of
The Prisoner of Azkaban)
The ????? of the Hound of the Baskervilles is
Stapleton.
The ????? of the play “Hamlet” could be
considered to be Claudius or Hamlet himself
The ????? of the book Grendel by John Gardner
is the world.
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• A person who actively
opposes or is hostile to
someone or something
• The ????? in SpiderMan was the Green
Goblin.
• The ???? in this novel
attempted to blow up
the town.
Definition~
A character who is
opposed to good.
Adversary.
Examples~
~ Voldemort (from Harry
Potter series)
~ Lex Luther (from
Superman series)
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5. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
A narrative poem, often of
folk origin and intended to
be sung, consisting of
simple stanzas and usually
having a refrain.
Examples:
*Oscar Wilde’s
“Ballad of
Reading Gaol”
*Aerosmith’s
“Dream On”
*Led Zeppelin’s
“Stairway to
Heaven”
*Heart’s “What
About Love”
Definition:
• A poem that tells a
story, usually with a
musical quality or
rhythm and put to
music.
“Light do I see within my Lady’s eyes
And loving spirits in its plenisphere
Which bear in strange delight on my heart’s care
Till Joy’s awakened from that sepulchre.”
from Ballata 5, by Guido Cavalcanti
Examples:
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• a simple narrative
poem of folk origin,
composed in short
stanzas and adapted
for singing.
Sir Patrick Spens
Bonnie Barbara Allen
The Rime of Ancient Mariner
Definition:
Definition-noun- A free verse poem that is
usually told orally and set to music.
Examples:
•
Definition:
Example 1- The ???? told a story of a young
man and a young girl who had met and fell in
love, but then were separated when a
terrible storm struck.
Examples
The ???? of the Green Berets by Sgt. Barry Sadler
The ???? of Persse O’Reilly by James Joyce
The ???? Of A Bachelor by Ellis Parker Butler
???? on the American War by Robert Burns
• any light, simple song,
especially one of
sentimental or
romantic character,
having two or more
stanzas all sung to
the same melody.
Example 2- The man sung the ???? while
playing his banjo to give a more upbeat feel
to the otherwise grim story.
6. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
A poem written in
unrhymed iambic
pentameter
Definition: Verse
without rhyme scheme,
especially that which
uses iambic pentameter
• Much of Shakespeare’s plays
– “Shall I compare thee to a
summer’s day” as well as
other Renaissance plays
• Milton’s Paradise Lost
• The Ball Poem
by
John Berryman
• Verse without rhyme, esp.
that which uses iambic
pentameter
Example: Romeo and Juliet
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the water!
Example: Hamlet
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and
tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day
to day,To the last syllable of recorded
time;And all our yesterdays have lighted
foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief
candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the
stageAnd then is heard no more: it is a
taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,Signifying nothing.
• unrhymed verse, especially
the unrhymed iambic
pentameter most
frequently used in
English dramatic, epic, and
reflective verse.
•
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the water!
•
But soft! What light through yonder window
breaks?
It is the East and Juliet is the sun!
A-rise fair sun and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That though her maid art far more fair than she
"Indeed this counselor / Is now most
still, most secret, and most grave, /
Who was in life a foolish prating
knave”
7. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
• A harsh, discordant
mixture of sounds
• a discordant and
meaningless
mixture of sounds
• She heard a ???? of
hoots, cackles, and
wails.
• The sound of city traffic
during midday is
ridiculous.
• Definition:
Harsh, discordant sounds
• Examples:
finger of birth-strangled babe.
EXCERPT FROM JABBERWOCKY BY LEWIS CARROLL
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
harsh or discordant
sound:dissonance;
Specifically:
harshness in the
sound of words
or phrases
Definition:
a harshness of sound.
discordant noise
Examples:
•The sounds of barking
dogs and sirens added
to the ???? on the
streets.
• The ???? of a pet
store full of animals.
Examples:
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe
Breakers crashed onto jagged rocks and clawed the
sands with brutal strikes, pummeling the beach
Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch
Definition: A technique in poetry
in which using an unpleasant,
harsh spoken sound is created
by clashing consonants
Example:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
-Lewis Carroll
Example:
And thou, who didst the stars
and sunbeams know,/Selfschool'd,self-scann'd, selfhonor'd, self-secure,/Didst tread
on earth unguess'd at. –Matthew
Arnold
8. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition
the highest or most intense
point in the development or
resolution of something
(in a dramatic or literary work)
a decisive moment that is of
maximum intensity or is a
major turning point in a
plot.
Examples
•In the movie 127 hours when he cuts off his
arm.
•In Toy Story when the toys escape Sid’s
house.
•In Aladin when Aladin fights Jafar.
•In The Patriot when Mel Gibson’s soldiers
fight on the front line against Cornwalis.
• Definition:
Definition:
a) the highest point
Examples:
•
The point at which the action in
a story reaches its emotional
peak
The highest level of conflict and
drama
•
•
In the ???? to the film "Star Wars," the empire's
death star is ready to destroy the rebel base. Luke
Skywalker and rebel pilots attack the base, and
after the deaths of some rebel pilots, Skywalker
successfully fires his missile into the death star's
vulnerable spot and destroys the death star, saving
the rebel forces.
In Grendel, the ????is when Beowulf rips Grendel’s
arm off during the fight.
The ???? of the book Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows is when Harry Potter and Voldermort
battle and Voldermort is killed by Harry.
b) a figure of speech in which a
series of phrases or sentences is
arranged in ascending order of
rhetorical forcefulness.
Reaching the ???? is like reaching the top of
a mountain.
• Examples:
“The ???? of that movie kept
me on the edge of my seat because it
was filled with so much action!” –
this is the high point in the movie and
everything leading up to this point.
“The man has reaches the ????
of his life as he has traveled around
the world and experienced things no
one else has.” – this is the high point
and the ascending points leading to
this point of greatest.
9. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
Definition: the repetition
of consonant sounds in
the middle or at the
end of consecutive
words that do not
rhyme
Examples: blank and
think, brick and clock
Definition: ????
is the repetition,
at close intervals,
of the final
consonants of
accented
syllables or
important words ,
especially at the
ends of words,
Examples:
A poetic device, repetition
of sounds or
consonants;
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“as in guys she gently sways at ease”
-"The Silken Tent" by Robert Frost
"Rap rejects my tape
deck, ejects projectile/Whether Jew or gentile I rank
top percentile."
- Zealots by the Fugees
"And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each
purple curtain."
- ”The Raven” by Adgar Alan Poe
Totally a picture of ????.
Examples
• Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow
• Litter and batter
• Spelled and scald
• Laughed and deft
10. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition
• a mythical or
mythicized character
who embodies the
aspirations of the
society in which the
story takes place
• He appeals to society
because he stands out
from traditional beliefs
Definition:
Examples
Ulysses in The Odyssey
Beowulf in Beowulf
Robin Hood
• a mythical or
mythicized historical
figure who embodies
the aspirations or
ideals of a society
Examples:
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Beowulf has extreme strength and is cocky.
Batman is extremely brave and is very humble.
• ______ ___ A figure
who embodies the
ideals of a society
• Ex. Superman
• Ex. Nelson Mandela
11. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
Examples:
style of speaking or writing as
o in a look until dropped like
dependent upon choice of words
an egg on the floor
let slop, crashed to slide
the accent, inflection,
and run, yolk yellow
intonation, and speech-sound
for the live, the dead who
quality manifested by an
worked through me
individual speaker, usually
(Wherever You Are, Be Somewhere Else:
judged in terms of prevailing
Denise Riley)
standards of acceptability
o Or is it the pentagram
Hidden in a bed the
conversation of bodies.
????- (noun) the authors
choice or words
• Definition:
Style of speaking or
writing as dependent
upon choice of words
(The prose of walking back to China: Christopher
Middleton)
• Examples:
Grendel uses words
that portray gloominess
and confusion to
provide sympathy for
Grendel.
Words and Behavior
uses complex words to
provide knowledgeable
feel to the essay.
SentenceThe authors true meaning or
theme cannot be conveyed
without a clear ????.
Her ???? while giving her
persuasive speech was flawless.
12. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition: ????that occurs when
the meaning of the situation is
understood by the audience but
not by the characters in the play.
Ex.1: A horror movie is playing all
of the sudden creepy music starts
playing, the viewers know
someone is about to die or
discover something horrible but of
course the characters can’
can’t hear
the music.
Ex.2: In Shrek, donkey knows that
Fiona and Shrek like each other
but only donkey and the audience
knows this, Shrek and Fiona have
no idea…
idea…yet ☺.
13. Literary Term is _______________________________
• ?????? are characters that change throughout
the course of a story
• Ebenezer Scrooge from “A Christmas Carol” is
a ?????
• Aladdin from “Aladdin” is a ?????
14. Literary Term is _______________________________
• Definition:
– An extended narrative poem
recounting actions, travels,
adventures, and heroic episodes
written in a high style.
Definition:
- a story that is usually told of
a hero and his adventures
- it is written in a formal
styles
Examples:
- The Iliad and The Odyssey
by Home
- Aeneid by Virgil
- Paradise Lost by Milton
- Beowulf
a long narrative poem telling of a
hero's deeds.
Examples:
The Iliad by Homer
This ????? tells of the Trojan Wars the
Greeks fought and of the hero Achilles.
The Iliad is thousands of years old and
has over 15,000 lines.
• Protagonist is heroically larger than
life
• The deeds of the hero are presented
without favoritism
• The action (in battle) reveals the
more-than-human strength of the
heroes
• The gods and lesser divinities play an
active role in the outcome
• All of the various adventures relate
in some way to the central theme
Examples:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an ancient
poem who has no specific author from
ancient Mesopotamia.
•Iliad, Homer
•Odyssey, Homer
•Aeneid, Virgil
•Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso
•Paradise Lost, Milton
•Beowulf
Typical set of conventions. Among them are
these:
•Poem begins with a statement of the theme
•Invocation to the muse or other
•Story begins in medias res
•Catalogs (of participants on each side, ships, sacrifices)
•Histories and descriptions of significant items (who made a
sword or shield, how it was decorated, who owned it from
generation to generation)
•Epic simile (a long simile where the image becomes an object
of art in its own right as well as serving to clarify the subject).
•Frequent use of epithets
•Use of patronymics (calling son by father's name)
•Long, formal speeches by important characters
•Journey to the underworld
•Use of the number three (attempts are made three times,
etc.)
•Previous episodes in the story are later recounted
15. Literary Term is _______________________________
Peter Volpone
____________: A
persuasive argument
appealing to ethics
EXAMPLES:
“If you support the army,
you support your country – please
donate $5 to the army.”
“You wouldn't kill an
animal would you? Then why do
you litter? Littering is the same as
killing animals, STOP LITTERING
TODAY!!!”
Definition:
• A type of rhetoric based
on the ethics and
morals of the speaker
used to persuade
others.
Examples:
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Join the military if you want to be a
proud citizen of your country
-Some would feel obligated to do
something for their country after
seeing this, because of their morals.
Sponsor a child in Africa to make
steps towards a better life for them
-Ethics and morals of many people
would be put into play by this
advertisement.
• Persuading someone based on the
character of the speaker
Ex. If Oprah
Winfrey talks
about a book she
likes, many
women will also
want to read the
book because
they like Oprah.
16. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition
Examples
• a type of language that
varies from the norms of literal
language, in which words mean
exactly what they say. Also
known as the "ornaments of
language," ??????
does not mean exactly what it
says, but instead forces the reader
to make an imaginative leap in
order to comprehend an author's
point.
It usually involves a comparison
between two things that may not,
at first, seem to relate to one
another
• Simile: He is as funny as a
barrel of monkeys
• Metaphor: You are what
you eat.
• Personification: The
tornado ran through town
without a care.
Definition:
Definition: ????? is a word
or phrase that departs from
everyday literal language
for the sake of comparison,
emphasis, clarity, or
freshness. Metaphor and
simile are the two most
commonly used figures of
speech, but things like
hyperbole, synecdoche,
puns, and personification
are also figures of speech
Examples:
•I was so hungry that I even ate
the plate (Hyperbole)
•The rain seemed like an old
friend who had finally found us
(Simile)
•My father was the sun and the
moon to me (Metaphor)
Examples:
Literal and ?????? is a distinction
in traditional systems for
analyzing language. Literal
language refers to words that
do not deviate from their
defined meaning. ????? refers
to words, and groups of words,
that exaggerate or alter the
usual meanings of the
component words. ?????may
involve analogy to similar
concepts or other contexts, and
may involve exaggerations.
These alterations result
in figures of speech.
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“You are an ant, while I am a lion” http://www.flocabulary.com/hiphoplanguage.html
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“The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are
poor.” http://www.flocabulary.com/hiphoplanguage.html
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“I fought a million rappers on an afternoon in
June.”
Definition: a word or
phrase that is used in a
different way for
comparison, emphasis,
or clarity
An example of a personification:
http://www.flocabulary.com/hiphoplanguage.html
Definition:
Language that
does not mean
exactly what it
says
Examples:
Busy as a bee.
-Uses “as” = simile
My teddy bear gave me a huge hug!
-gives a teddy bear human characteristics =
personification
She sells seashells by the seashore
-Repetition of initiation letter or sound = alliteration
I am so hungry I could eat an entire bear
-An extreme exaggeration = hyperbole
Life is a journey
-comparing life and journey without using “like” or “as” =
metaphor
Examples: simile,
metaphor, hyperbole and
personification
•An example of a simile
would be “fleece as white
as snow”
•An example of a
hyperbole would be “I’ve
told you a thousand
times”
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16. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
- A literary or cinematic
device in which an
earlier event is
inserted into the
normal chronological
order of a narrative.
Examples:
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As the prisoner sat in his jail cell, he began to
think about his past… when he was a young
boy his parents never had time to care for him
and were never around.
The lady landed in her hometown where she
grew up and began to remember all the fun
times she had when she was growing up.
Definition:
• A ?????in literature is
a device that allows
the writer to present
events that happened
before the time of the
current narration.
Examples:
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Memories
Dreams
Stories of the past told by characters
In the Harry Potter series ???? are used as Harry
often looks back to his tragic baby years.
Definition:
“an interruption of the
chronological sequence
(as of a film or literary
work) of an event of
earlier occurrence”
(Merriam, 288).”
A reference to an event
which took place prior
to the beginning of a
story or play.
Examples:
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In Grendel, John Gardener uses ????? to give the
reader a view of Grendel’s early life.
In Harry Potter, ?????, in the form of Pensieves,
are used to give the reader a view of the early
life of Tom Riddle, among other things.
17. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
Examples:
•
• the act of providing
vague advance
indications;
representing
beforehand
•
The music in jaws before the shark comes. Duh
nu. duh nu. duhnunununu
The characters in the Wizard of Oz are in the
beginning of the film and appear normal but
later are displayed by their characteristics such
as the mean lady being the wicked witch of the
west.
Definition:
• ???? is a device in
which an author
suggests certain plot
developments that
might come later in
the story.
Examples:
In the fairytale “Little Red Riding Hood”, Little Red
Riding Hood’s mother warns her to behave herself
on the way to grandmother’s and stay on the path.
This__________danger, more specifically danger of
the wolf.
???? is represented in a suspense novel when a
character says, “You must never go through that
door”. The reader can infer that the main character
will venture to open the door in the future.
18. Literary Term is _______________________________
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Definition
• Verse composed of
variable, usually
unrhymed lines having
no fixed metrical
pattern.
•
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
has no rhyme scheme and no
meter.
A Game of Death by J.A.
McManus has no rhym scheme
and no meter.
Walt Whitman
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Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Example One“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”
Song of Myself By Walt Whitman
(http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/24-free-verse.htm)
Example Two“I buried my father in my heart.
Now he grows in me, my strange son,
My little root who won’t drink milk,
Little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,
Little clock spring newly wet
In the fire, little grape, parent to the future
Wine, a son the fruit of his own son,
Little father I ransom with my life.”
From Little Father
Li-Young Lee
http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_famous_free_examples.
html
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(http://wendicthomas.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/drummer-bo y-
Definition: n.- Verse that does not follow a fixed
metrical pattern.
Examples:
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or-Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!
Feelings, Now:
Some kind of attraction that is neither
Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a
power not
Solar, fusion, or magnetic
And it is all in my head that
I could see into his
And find myself sitting there.
Copyright © 1996 by Katherine
Foreman.
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19. Literary Term is _______________________________
• Definition:
a literary term in
which a huge
exaggeration
occurs
• Examples:
He was so
hungry he
could eat an
elephant.
I was beginning
to cook from
the heat.
Definition:
A deliberate
exageration
used for
effect.
Examples:
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•
“I’m so thirsty that I could drink the whole
ocean.” Saying the person is thirsty.
“I could lift a million pounds”. The person is
strong.
20. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition: The formation of
mental images, figures, or
likenesses of things
Ex. 1: The music coursed through
us, shaking our bodies as if it
came from within us.
Ex. 2: The jungle was lush,
teeming with life to its very core.
figurative language, especially metaphors
and similes or words addressing the senses,
used in poetry, plays, and other literary
pieces
Example 1.
The dessert
tastes sweet
yet spicy at
once, with a
tinge of
orange taste
Example 2.
I was as stiff as
a wooden plank
after running 8
miles for the
first time in
several months
21. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
Examples:
• When something is said or
done that contradicts what
is happening or something
that happened in the past
• Verbal: When something is
said that is sarcastic or
doesn’t mean something
literally.
• Dramatic: When the
audience knows what is
going to happen but the
character does not
• Situational: When
something happens that is
opposite is what has been
said is going to happen.
something said or written that uses humor
based on words suggesting the opposite of
their literal meaning
Verbal ????: a figure of speech in which what
is said is the opposite of what is meant
Situational ????: an outcome that turns out to
be very different from what was expected, the
difference between what is expected to
happen and what actually does
Dramatic ????: is inherent in speeches or a
situation of a drama and is understood by the
audience but not grasped by the characters in
the play.
•
A firehouse catches on fire—A fire station
normally puts out fires
Examples of
verbal ????:
Well that helped
a lot.
Nice haircut.
Examples of situational
????:
The fire department burns
down.
A lifeguard drowns in the
kiddy pool
Examples of dramatic
????:
Spooky music in horror
movies, you know
something's coming, but
the characters do not.
The audience knows the
killer is hiding in the
closet but the character
does not.
22. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
a figure of speech in
which a term or phrase
is applied to
something to which it
is not literally
applicable in order to
suggest a resemblance
something used, or
regarded as being
used, to represent
something else;
emblem; symbol.
Examples:
• The assignment was a breeze.
• The desert is a burning furnace.
Definition:
• A comparison of two unlike
things without the use of
like or as.
Examples:
• America is a melting pot
• He has a heart of stone
• The defense was an
impassable wall
• That man is a pig
• A ???? is the
comparison of two
unlike things.
Ex. He is a pig.
Ex. Thou art sunshine.
23. Literary Term is _______________________________
DEFINITION: The atmosphere that
pervades a literary work with the
intention of evoking a certain emotion
or feeling from the audience. In
drama, ???? may be created by sets
and music as well as words; in poetry
and prose, ???? may be created by a
combination of such elements as
setting, voice, tone and theme.
EXAMPLES:
- Edgar Allen Poe has disturbing
and horrific _____ in his short
stories.
-Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
has a very brooding and desperate
_____.
- Jane Austen’s novels have a
romantic and hopeful _____
24. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
Noun
– A. A person who narrates
something, esp. the events
of a novel or narrative
poem: "his poetic efforts
are mocked by the ???? of
the story".
– B. A person who delivers a
commentary accompanying
a movie, broadcast, piece
of music, etc
Examples:
•
Morgan Freeman tells many stories and
explains many phenomena on science channels
making him a ????.
• The ?????? of Twilight happens to be Bella Swan
as she tells her story about vampires.
-Twilight, Stephanie Meyer
Definition:
Examples:
a person who tells a story or
gives an account of
something
a person who speaks in
accompaniment of a film,
television program,
novel, etc.
•
The Harry Potter series is told through
a ????with a third person limited point
of view.
•
To Kill a Mockingbird is told through a
???? with a first person point of view.
fanpop.com
25. Literary Term is _______________________________
• Definition
• Definition:
– the use of words that sound like what they
mean
Examples:
The formation of a word by
imitation of a sound made
by or associated with it’s
referent.
•
The duck was quacking.
•
The bee buzzed by my ear.
•
The cow mooed loudly.
Definition:
Examples:
A literary device wherein “crash”
the sound of a word
“zoom”
echoes the sound it
“buzz”
represents
• Examples
Boom!
Purr…
26. Literary Term is _______________________________
• Definition: A
contradictory
statement that upon
closer inspection proves
true.
• Examples:
• Those have ears but
hear not
• Stone walls do not a
prison make, nor iron
bars a cage.
• Definition: A statement
that appears to
contradict itself.
• Examples :
"Je ne parle pas Français."
(Bart Simpson, The Simpsons)
- Translates to " I do not speak French " ,
in French.
"War is peace."
"Freedom is slavery."
"Ignorance is strength."
(George Orwell, 1984)
- Each statement is being directly related
to the other, although they are complete
opposites.
-Stairs go up, but which way is
up?
http://rubenganev.files.wordpress.com/2011/
05/paradox.jpg
http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/paradoxterm.htm
Paradox
Definition:
• a figure of speech in
which a statement
appears to contradict
itself.
• something that has the
possibility of being true
or not true.
Examples:
•
•
•
•
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
I must be cruel to be kind. ~
William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
27. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
The ??? ? ?? is the position of the
narrator in relation to the story,
as indicated by the narrator’s
outlook from which the events
are depicted and by the
attitude toward the characters.
Examples:
•
•
1st person singular – When you’re narrating
yourself. “I was walking down the street when
suddenly…”
3rd person singular – When an outside person
is narrating another person or event. “He was
walking down the street when suddenly...”
28. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
Examples:
Definition~
The main character who ~ Harry Potter
is usually a hero or ~ Superman
heroine.
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“the leading
character,
hero, or
heroine of a
drama or other
literary work.”
–
dictionary.com
Examples:
•
•
•
•
Harry Potter is the ???? of the Harry Potter
series by J.K. Rowling
In Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the
Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr.
Watson is the ????.
The ???? of the play “Hamlet” is Hamlet
The ???? of the book Grendel by John Gardner
is not a hero, but the monster Grendel
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29. Literary Term is _______________________________
• Definition: A phrase or
verse reoccurring at
intervals within a poem
or song.
-Stanzas
two and
four are
refrains
• Examples:
Definition:
Examples:
• A repeated line or number
of lines in a poem or song,
typically at the end of each
verse/ chorus
- From 'Lay the Bent to the Bonny Broom' by
Pentangle
There lived a lady by the North Sea shore,
Lay the bent to the bonny broom*
Two daughters were the babes she bore.
Fa la la la la la la la la. *
As one grew bright as is the sun,
Lay the bent to the bonny broom *
So coal black grew the other one.
Fa la la la la la la la. *
*This contains a _______midverse
•
•
•
•
• Definition: A phrase or
verse repeated in
intervals throughout a
song or poem.
“Cause baby you're a firework
Come on show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby you're a firework
Come on let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh!"
You're gunna leave 'em fallin' down-own-own”
Firework by Katy Perry
“There you go making my heart beat again,
Heart beat again,
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time?
There you go pulling me right back in,
Right back in,
Right back in
And I know-oo I'm never letting this go-ooo”
Stuck Like Glue by Sugarland
•
Each example below is repeated in their
respective song or poem.
•
“Hey soul sister, ain't that mister mister on
the radio, stereo; The way you move ain't
fair you know; Hey soul sister, I don't wanna
miss a single thing you do; tonight!”- “Hey
Soul Sister” by Train
•
“Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.“”- “The
Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe
30. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
Examples:
• the use of irony,
sarcasm, ridicule, or
the like, in exposing,
denouncing, or
deriding vice, folly,
etc.
•
•
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart constantly
makes fun of politicians.
Stephen Colbert also constantly______ politics
and other people in popular culture.
• ????- A literary work
that emphasizes
peoples foolishness and
stupidity by using
sarcasm.
• Ex. “Not Another Teen
Movie”
• Ex. “My Man Godfrey”
31. Literary Term is _______________________________
???? ???? (also called
cosmic irony) is a trope
in which accidental
events occur that seem
oddly appropriate, such
as the poetic justice of a
pickpocket getting his
own pocket picked.
However, both the
victim and the audience
are simultaneously
aware of the situation in
__________________.
Examples:
•A couple appears in court to
finalize a divorce, but during
the proceeding, they remarry
instead
•You buy yourself something
after months of saving and
then someone gets it for you
for Christmas!
Definition: A type of irony
emphasizing that human beings are
enmeshed in forces beyond their
comprehension and control
Ex.1: You and your friend are
walking down a road when you
reach a dead end sign, behind the
sign is a cemetery.
Ex.2: Your walking along a
boardwalk and you see a no
seagulls sign, on top of the sign sits
a seagull.
32. Literary Term is _______________________________
Is someone in a story who talks
in first person or one who give a
speech or a lecture.
Definition:
The person who is
(assumed to be)
talking.
Examples:
•
In Frankenstein, the ???? shifts
between Robert Walton, Victor
Frankenstein, and Frankenstein’s
monster.
Some examples are Martin Luther
King Jr. in his speech, or Nelson
Mandela in his speech.
tvtropes.org
• Definition:
– The narrative or elegiac
voice in a poem or story
that speaks of his or her
situation or feelings.
– A person who delivers a
speech or lecture
Examples:
Each night representatives
are shown on C-Span.
The ???? in the poem
“Uphill” is the author
Christina Rossetti
33. Literary Term is _______________________________
• Definition:
• Examples:
the study of the rules for the
formation of grammatical
sentences in a language.
the study of the patterns of
formation of sentences and phrases
from words.
a system or orderly arrangement
The arrangement of words in a
sentence
• "Colorless green ideas sleep
furiously."
•
•
(Linguist Noam Chomsky created this
sentence--which is grammatically
correct but incomprehensible--to
demonstrate that the rules governing
???? are distinct from the meanings
words convey.)
Now it’s not interesting to talk when
we know that the conversation’s being
recorded.
Don’t you be having no more of ’em
bagels now, son.
????- (noun) the order of
words in a sentence
ExamplesIf I pay attention in school
and learn the principles of
grammar I will be able to
use proper ????.
Thank you, sir. OR Sir,
Thank You
34. Literary Term is _______________________________
Definition:
• The ???? is usually
described as being
the dominant or
unifying idea in a
story or work of art.
Examples:
•
•
Romeo and Juliet “Love conquers all” would
the ????.
Macbeth “Evil never Triumphs” would be the
main ???? of that story.
35. Literary Term is _______________________________
•
•
???? is a reflection of a writer’s
or speaker’s attitude toward a
subject of a poem, story, or
other literary work.
Ex.
1. Holden Caulfield has an
undeniable tone in Catcher in the
Rye. He is sarcastic, tough, and
inquisitive. He also makes
poignant observations through
his rather biting tone.
2. Voldemort, in the Harry Potter
series, constantly has a dark and
threatening ????.
The writer's attitude toward the
material and/or readers. ????
may be playful, formal, intimate,
angry, serious, ironic, outraged, baffled, tender,
serene, depressed, etc.
Examples:
• “All morons hate it when you call them a moron.” The
???? in this sentence could be described as sarcastic.
• “Get to bed. Now.” The ???? in this sentence would be
serious.
36. Literary Term is _______________________________
• The character defect that
causes the downfall of the
protagonist of a tragedy.
• Examples: Macbeth, Hamlet
Definition:
Examples:
a weakness in a character
that eventually leads to
his or her downfall
• In the Tortoise and the Hare,
the Hare’s overconfidence
leads him to losing the race.
• Oedipus’s lack of knowledge of
his adoption leads him to
killing him father and
marrying his mother
•
Definition:–noun Literature . the character
defect that causes the downfall of the
protagonist of a tragedy
•
•
Examples:
Shakespeare's Hamlet---Hamlet's ??? ???is
his indecisiveness and it leads to his
downfall.
•
Family Guy--- Peter Griffin is
extremely impulsive and causes
many problems for his family and
friends
•
Philip J. Fry has a severe lack of
intelligence which causes many
problems for him and his friends:
Futurama.
37. Literary Term is _______________________________
•
??? ???(also called
sarcasm) is a trope in
which a speaker makes
a statement in which
its actual meaning
differs sharply from the
meaning that the
words ostensibly
express. Often this sort
of irony is plainly
sarcastic in the eyes of
the reader, but the
characters listening in
the story may not
realize the speaker's
sarcasm as quickly as
the readers do.
Examples:
•Dad is finally out of patience with
picking up after his son, who can't
seem to be trained to put his dirty
clothes in the hamper instead of
letting them drop wherever he
happens to be when he takes them
off. "Would Milord please let me
know when it pleases him to have
his humble servant pick up after
him?“
•Mother comes into the TV room and
discovers her 11-year-old watching
South Park instead of doing his
homework, as he was set to a dozen
minutes ago. Pointing to the screen
she says, "Don't let me tempt you
from your duties, kiddo, but when
you're finished with your serious
studies there, maybe we could take
some time out for recreation and do
a little math."
Terms not on the list for you to define:
38. Symbolism
39. Personification
40.
Definition: When a character means
to say one thing but it's heard by
others as something different.
Ex.1: You call your mom to pick you
up from school however you come
out several minutes late, your mom
says, “Well please let me know what
time your humble servant should be
here next time”
time”
Ex.2: You’
You’ve had a bad day and
when you get home your brother
comes up and says, “Your dog
died”
died”, after hearing this comment
you simply say “Oh great!”
great!”