Literary Terms
personal monologues delivered to the audience. This was a typical theatrical device in Shakespeare's time, but is rarely used today.
Soliloquies
I WENT TO THE STORE, PARKED THE CAR, AND BOUGHT PIZZA.
Parallelism
is a pattern that applies to the entire poem.
fixed form
the word choices made by a writer
Diction
uses he, she, or it to tell the story and doesn't participate in the action.
third-person narration
often lengthy speeches delivered by single characters. These allow for revelations of thoughts or feelings.
monologues
Asking someone, "Are you dumb?" and not expecting them to answer
rhetorical question
A poem style that isn't constrained by a rhythm or rhyme scheme. Instead, poets rely on imagery, figurative language, assonance, repetition, and alliteration to infuse music into the poem.
free verse
a central idea of a work
theme
uses I and is either a major or minor participant in the story.
first-person narrator
Refers to words of a particular region or group.
Dialect
WITHOUT LOOKING, WITHOUT MAKING A SOUND, WITHOUT TALKING
REPETITION, ANAPHORA, ASYNDETON
A long narrative poem on a momentous subject in which divine, semidivine, or human characters perform heroic actions.
epic
a standard theme, element, or dramatic situation that recurs in various works
MOTIF
This narrator type is all-knowing and can take the reader inside the minds and thoughts of the other characters.
omniscient narrator
This literary element reveals actions that may happen in the future.
Foreshadowing
"When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,—
When he beats his bars”
Alliteration
A couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style
heroic couplet
Terms that need descriptive adjectives with them when you use them in ANY ANALYSIS
Diction, tone, syntax, theme
Limited narration (can be third OR first-person)
using one part of an object to represent the entire object
SYNECHDOCHE
"It's not the best weather," to describe a hurricane.
LITOTES/UNDERSTATEMENT
or natural pause, will unexpectedly fall in the middle of a line instead of at the end.
caesura
the manner in which words are arranged into sentences
SYNTAX
Uses "you" as the narration style. Not used very often in fictional writing
second-person narration