Literary 1
a fixed and overgeneralized belief about a group of people.
Stereotype
the atmosphere or feeling set by the author or speaker’s word choice.
Tone
the reasoning behind a character’s actions or behavior.
Motivation
the atmosphere of the narrative
Mood
a scene that takes place before a story begins.
Flashback
lesson the author wants you to take from the story
Theme
the distinctive way that an author writes using word choice, phrases, tone, etc.
Style
a character, setting, or element of literature with a deeper meaning.
Symbol
an overused element that becomes generic from excessive use.
Cliche
the anticipation of the outcome of a plot or of the solution to an uncertainty
Suspense
imitation with deliberate exaggeration.
Parody
a narrative genre in literature that involves a mysterious, adventurous, or spiritual story line
Romance
a figure of speech and a form of understatement in which a sentiment is expressed ironically by negating its contrary.
Litotes
regional literature is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters
Local Color
Branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events
Tragedy
something with a meaning that is contrary to what it suggests, often for humorous effect.
Irony
poetry that does not follow a standard meter or rhyme scheme.
Free verse
a poem of serious reflection, usually towards the dead.
Elegy
something that plays with words with multiple meanings
Pun
a literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work
Motif
a indication of future events.
Foreshadowing
explains the features of something.
Description
sentence is made up of two segments which are equal, not only in length, grammatical structure and meaning.
Balance
Even lines that are only repeated once in a poem
Refrain
generally defined as a literary work that is written to amuse or entertain a reader
Comedy