Comprehensive Guide to Literary Terms

Mar 02, 2025

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Explore the rich world of literary terminology with this comprehensive guide covering all essential concepts to enhance your understanding of literature. From symbolism to meter, unlock the key elements of literary analysis with ease.

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Comprehensive Guide to Literary Terms

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Lit Terms 2

Lit Terms 2. Rhetorical Analysis. Anecdote. A brief account of or a story about an individual or an incident

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Lit Terms Project

Lit Terms Project. By: Shanee Seton Period 3. Ballad. A long song or poem that tells a story; A slow romantic pop song. example.

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Lit Terms for Othello

Lit Terms for Othello . Rachel, Housten, David, Michaela, Sarah. Dramatic Irony . Irony that 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 So that the audience will know the true character traits.

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Lit Terms Project

Lit Terms Project. By: Sam Rahwa. Ballad. Defined as: a narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation of the language, form, and spirit of the traditional ballad. An Example of Literary Ballad:. Le Belle Dame Sans Merci John Keats O what can ail thee, Knight-at-arms,

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Lit. Terms Review

Lit. Terms Review. Flip through the following slides to review literary terms on the quart. 1. Exposition.

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Lit Terms

Lit Terms. Allyson Suria, Raquel Mejia, Farjana Pireya, Bethany Solano. Drama. A major literary form that presents characters directly to the audience, usually without the intermediary of a narrator. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Comedy.

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AP Lit POETRY TERMS

AP Lit POETRY TERMS. All the terms you’ll need to know!!. Sound Devices. Alliteration: Repetition of similar or identical initial consonant sounds: the g iggling g irl g ave me g um. Assonance: Repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds: The th i n man gr i nned at the w i n.

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Shakespeare Drama Lit. Terms

Shakespeare Drama Lit. Terms. By: Whitney, Felicia, Ashlyn , Clayton, and Clay. Anastrophe. Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words. Ex: Majority of the place is the anastrophe. Which leads to the fall of Othello’s happiness.

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Lit Terms

Lit Terms. Christina Philipson Period 7. Parody. Humorous imitation of another, usually serious work. It imitates the tone, language and shape of original text. Prosody . The overall metrical structure of a poem. Synecdoche.

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Lit Terms: Review

Lit Terms: Review. English II Common Assessment. Lit Terms. 1. Archetype - Symbol, story pattern, character type found in the literature of many cultures. 2. Imagery - When writing allows you to paint a picture in your head.

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Lit Terms

Lit Terms. By Mark Falamoun, Robert Lewis and Nicole Carrasco. Hyperbole. A trope in which a point is stated in a way that is greatly exaggerated. Example: Othello Othello greeting his new wife after surviving a harsh storm. “O my soul’s joy! If After every tempest come such calms,

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Poetry Lit. Terms

Poetry Lit. Terms. Get pumped. . Rhythm. A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound In Poetry: The pattern of sounds made by varying the stressed and unstressed syllables Is there a fast rhythm? Is it smooth?

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Glossary of Lit Terms

Glossary of Lit Terms. 2013-2014. Abstract. Not concrete; based on general principles or theories rather than on specific instances. Aesthetic. Beautiful: pleasing in appearance. Allusion. Act of alluding: the act of making an indirect reference to somebody or something. Analogy.

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Lit Terms

Lit Terms. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Alliteration. Review! T he commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter Example: “ G reet the G ruesome G uest. Rhyme. identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.

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Lit Terms Project!

Lit Terms Project!. Colette Hernandez Chelsea Skubal. Anaphora. The repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses.

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Lit Terms 3

Lit Terms 3. Anecdote. A short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or interesting event. A good anecdote has a single, definite point, and the setting, dialogue, and characters are usually subordinate to the point of the story . Ex:

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Lit Terms Week One

Lit Terms Week One. conceit. elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are compared; an exaggerated metaphor. Rhetorical strategy.

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Lit Terms

Lit Terms. Characters. Themes. Vocabulary. Critical Lens. Stories. Lit Terms. Characters. Themes. Vocabulary. Critical Lens. Stories. $100. $100. $100. $100. $ 100. $100. $200. $200. $200. $200. $200. $200. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $300. $400. $400. $400. $400.

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Lit Terms of Doom….

Lit Terms of Doom…. Not really, also in alphebetical order By Ben Le. Ballad. A narrative poem or song, rhythmic. It glorifies all in it to fame or infamy in the heroic kind. In the romantic it’s like a love story. The Devil Went Down to Georgia By Charlie Daniels is a heroic ballad.

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IRONY AND LIT. Terms

IRONY AND LIT. Terms. Irony. Verbal Irony Very funny ! Situational Irony How ironic! Dramatic Irony See picture. IRONY. Irony - literary techniques that convey difference between appearance and reality. Verbal irony- words are used to convey that opposite of what is said.

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AP LIT TERMS

AP LIT TERMS. Steven P Peter B Charlie P Nathan G. THE MONEY TEAM (TMT). Terms. Syntax Simple Predicate Sentence Complete Predicate Subject Direct Object Predicate Indirect Object Independent Clause Appositive Dependent Clause Sentence Fragment

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Lit Terms

Lit Terms. Of Mice and men. Foreshadow. literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story. The death of an animal often foreshadows the death of someone else in a story. The death of Candy’s dog foreshadows what?. Allusion.

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