Literary Terms
Poetry terms
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100
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
100
A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is spoken of as if it were another.
What is metaphor?
100
An author's choice of words.
What is diction?
100
The arrangement of two or more things for the purpose of comparison.
What is juxtaposition?
100
The dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
The assignment of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea.
What is personification?
200
Poetry without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme.
What is free verse?
200
Holy.
What is pious?
200
Imaginative language not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?
200
Having a snake-like quality.
What is serpentine?
300
The associations and emotional overtones attached to a word, beyond the literal.
What is connotation?
300
Includes tactile, gustatory, auditory, visual and olfactory.
What is imagery?
300
Respect tinged with awe.
What is reverence?
300
A discrepancy between expectations and reality.
What is irony?
300
Relaxed and conversational language that often includes simple words, idioms, slang, jargon, and contractions.
What is low diction?
400
The perspective from which a narrative is told.
What is point of view?
400
The pause within the middle of a line of poetry.
What is caesura?
400
The ability to affect one's environment.
What is agency?
400
Reference to someone or something that is known from anouther source, such as history, religion, or literature.
What is an allusion?
400
Pretending to possess that which is not natural; artificial, feigned.
What does "affected" mean?
500
The character the author narrates through, thus temporarily inserting him/herself into the text.
What is author's persona?
500
What is the continuation of thought from one line to another in poetry?
What is enjambment?
500
The attitude a writer takes toward the subject.
What is tone?
500
A recurrent theme, subject, character type, or image that becomes a unifying element in a text.
What is a motif?
500
Language that creates an elevated tone, free of slang, contractions, idioms, and colloquialisms.
What is high diction?
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