Literary Terms
Acrostic
Act Allegory Alliteration Allusion Ambiguity Anachrony (analepsis, prolepsis,ellipsis) Anagram Analogy Anastrophe Anecdote Antagonist Anecdote Antecedent Anthropomorphism Anticlimax Antithesis Aphorism Apostrophe (direct address) Archetype Aside (Drama) Assonance Asyndeton Atmosphere Attitude Ballad Bard Baroque Blank Verse Bildungsroman Cacophony Caesura Canon (not metal!) Caricature Cartharsis Character (Round/Flat, Dynamic/Static) Characterization Chiasmus Chorus (Greek) Circumlocution Cliche Climax Comedy of humors/manners Comic Relief Conceit Concrete poetry Conflict (External- M v. M, M v. So, M v.N; Internal- M v. Self) Connotation Consonance Contrast Couplet Courtly love Denotation Denouement Deus ex Machina Dialect Dialogue Diction Didactic Dirge Discourse Dissonance Dystopia Ekphrasis Elegy Elision Empathy Enjambment Epic Epigraph Epilogue Epitaph Epithet |
Euphemism
Euphony Exposition Fable Faulty Parallelism Fallacy Farce Flashback Foil (person) Foreshadowing Free Verse Genre Haiku Hegemony Hubris Hymn Hyperbaton Hyperbole Iamb Idiom Imagery in medias res Internal Rhyme Inversion Invocation Irony Jargon Juxtaposition Kenning Litotes Local color Locution Lyric Malapropism Maxim Meiosis Melodrama Memoir Metaphor Meter Metonymy mise-en-scene Monologue Montage Mood Morpheme Motif Muckraker Narrative Nemesis nom de plume Ode Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Palindrome Parable Paradox Parallelism Parody Pathos Periphrasis Persona Personification Plot & Plot Diagram Point of View (1st, 2nd, 3rd L, 3rd O) Polysyndeton portmanteau word Prologue Proscenium Prose |
Protagonist
Pun Quatrain Refrain Repetition Resolution Rhetorical Techniques Rhyme Rhythm Rondeau Sarcasm Satire Scansion Setting (Time & Place) Sibilance Stereotype Simile Soliloquy Sonnet (Shakespearean, Spenserian, and Petrachan) Spoonerisms Stanza Stream of Consciousness Surrealism Suspense Suspension of disbelief Syllogism Symbol Synecdoche Synesthesia Syntax Theme Thesis Tragic flaw Tone Understatement Utopia Verisimilitude Verse Voice Try making a poster for one of these literary terms. Find a word that you have not seen/used. Give the definition and the part of speech. One word per poster is enough. |
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