Literary Terms
Literary Terms II
Literary Terms
Vocab
Miscellaneous
100
A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification
What is allusion?
100
The opposition between two characters (such as a protagonist and an antagonist), between two large groups of people, or between the protagonist and a larger problem such as forces of nature, ideas, public mores, and so on.
What is conflict?
100
The person(s) reading a text, listening to a speaker, or observing a performance.
What is audience?
100
To sound or utter with clamor or persistent repetition.
What is din?
100
The abbreviation for this component of a literary analysis is cd?
What is concrete detail?
200
The following is an example of ______. "Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it."
What is antithesis?
200
A humorous scene, incident, character, or bit of dialogue occurring after some serious or tragic moment.
What is comic relief?
200
Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others, or beginning several words with the same vowel sound.
What is alliteration?
200
Hardened, insensitive, unsympathetic
What is callous?
200
The abbreviation for the commentary part of a literary analysis is ____.
What is cm?
300
An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life
What is archetype?
300
The words house and home both refer to a domicile, but home gives certain singular emotional qualities and personal possession in a way that house doesn't. I might own four houses I rent to others, but I might call none of these my home, for example.
What is connotation?
300
Using opposite phrases in close conjunction.
What is antithesis?
300
With hands on hips and elbows projected outward
What is akimbo?
300
These are the methods for supporting a thesis statement.
What is direct quotations, summaries of scenes, and paraphrasing?
400
In common parlance, song hits, folk music, and folktales or any song that tells a story are loosely called _________. In more exact literary terminology, a ______ is a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter.
What is ballad?
400
A writer could call a rock formation by many words--a stone, a boulder, an outcropping, a pile of rocks, a cairn, a mound, or even an "anomalous geological feature." The analytical reader then faces tough questions. Why that particular choice of words? What is the effect of that _____? The word choice a writer makes determines the reader's reaction to the object of description, and contributes to the author's style and tone.
What is diction?
400
Placing an event, person, item, or verbal expression in the wrong historical period.
What is anachronism?
400
Written communication
What is epistle?
400
This is a specific focus on attributes of a text?
What is a literary analysis?
500
The term in poetry refers to the use of words that combine sharp, harsh, hissing, or unmelodious sounds. It is the opposite of euphony.
What is cacophony?
500
Any poem dealing with the subject-matter common to complaints about love, sustained formal lamentation, or somber meditations.
What is elegy?
500
This term loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. This narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves on the literal level, but they also stand for something else on the symbolic level.
What is allegory?
500
Of or pertaining to money
What is pecuniary?
500
This is the ratio of a good chunked paragraph.
What is 2:1?
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