Literary Elements
Literary element that refers to the rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language
What is rhythm?
Nineteenth-century literary movement was an extension of realism and claimed to portray life exactly as it was
What is naturalism?
The term for a figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things without using words such as "like" or "as"
What is metaphor?
Literary device involves the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds
What is assonance?
This type of irony occurs when the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
Literary element that involves a discrepancy between appearances and reality
What is irony?
Literary movement that swept the arts during the first third of the twentieth century and was characterized by bold experimental styles and forms
What is modernism?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
what is alliteration?
Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
What is couplet?
When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what was expected.
What is situational irony?
Literary element that creates an atmosphere through a writer's diction and selected details
What is mood?
Literary movement that began in Europe in the seventeenth century and held that truth could be arrived at through reason rather than relying on authority
What is rationalism?
The term for a figure of speech that gives human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects
What is anthropomorphism?
A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. “If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times….”
What is hyperbole?
Identify the type of irony in the following: "Oh great another rainy day in sunny California."
What is verbal irony?
Literary element that involves a statement that appears self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth
What is paradox?
Literary movement that was a revolt against rationalism and affected literature and the arts beginning in the late eighteenth century
What is Romanticism?
The term for a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part of a sentence is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed
What is chiasmus?
The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience
What is imagery?
A discrepancy between appearances and reality
What is irony?
Literary element that involves the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work
What is theme?
Literary movement that originated in late nineteenth-century France, rearranging the world of appearances to reveal a more truthful version of reality
What is symbolism?
A poetic device that involves the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
What is foreshadowing?
Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse
What is Rhetoric?
Identify the type of irony in the following: "In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet is not dead but Romeo does not."
What is dramatic irony?