Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
Literary Terms 3
Literary Terms 4
Examples
100
Makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
100
An exaggeration used to express strong sentiments.
Hyperbole
100
Words or phrases used to create a picture in your mind.
Imagery
100
Rhetorical appeal that appeals to the audience's emotions.
Pathos
100
Your smile is the sun.
Metaphor
200
Repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another.
Alliteration
200
A kind of metaphor in which an inanimate object or quality is talked about as if it were human.
Personification
200
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object that needs no explanation.
Allusion
200
The literal meaning of a word.
Denotation
200
Pretty ugly *Double Jeopardy*
Oxymoron
300
A person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and something beyond itself.
Symbol
300
The central idea or insight of a work of literature.
Theme
300
Author's attitude toward a piece of writing.
Tone
300
A statement that is formulated as a question but is not meant to be answered.
Rhetorical Question
300
I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.
Allusion
400
Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and are not meant to be understood on a literal level.
Figurative Language
400
A writer's choice of words. *Double Jeopardy*
Diction
400
Author's intent or reason for writing a piece of work.
Purpose
400
This occurs when events/facts are unknown to the characters, but are known by the audience/reader.
Dramatic Irony
400
A fire station burns down.
Situational Irony
500
Rhetorical appeal that relies on the credibility of the speaker.
Ethos
500
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
500
The perspective in which the narrator knows all character's thoughts and actions and uses "he" "she" pronouns
Third Person Omniscient
500
A figure of speech that puts two contradictory terms in conjunction.
Oxymoron
500
All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. (Rhetorical Appeal)
Logos
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