Literary Terms-1
It occurs when a statement or situation means something different from (or even the opposite of) what is expected.
What is irony?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter.
What is a couplet?
Example: Jumbo shrimp
What is an oxymoron?
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death
Such waltzing was not easy
What is a quatrain?
A difference between what is said and what is meant.
What is verbal irony? Example: Oh, goody! It's time to do my homework.
The word sounds like what it describes.
What is onomatopoeia?
A humorous word or phrase that depends on a double meaning, either from a second meaning of the same word, or from the meaning of another word with a similar sound.
What is a pun?
Something that stands for something more than itself.
What is a symbol?
The implied attitude of the writer toward the subject or the audience.
What is the tone?
A story or poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral.
What is an allegory?
A difference between what happens and what would be expected to happen.
What is situational irony? Example: A student studies for days for an English test, but sleeps in the morning of the test, shows up late for class, and fails the test.
a poem that tells a story in verse
What is a narrative poem?
The specialized language, often technical terms, of a particular group or profession.
What is jargon?
scene that interrupts the normal chronological flow of events in a story to depict something that happened earlier
What is flashback?
What is gothic literature?
Example: He was no Michael Jordan, but he could shoot a basketball.
What is an allusion?
An address, usually in poetry, to someone, or even to a personified thing or abstract idea that is not present.
What is an apostrophe? Example: Lord Byron's "Apostrophe to the Ocean"
A long speech made by a character who is on stage alone and reveals his/her private thoughts and feelings to the audience
What is soliloquy?
Example: Freedom weeps, wrong rules the land, and waiting justice sleeps
What is personification?
A relatively short narrative poem, written to be sung, with a simple and dramatic action
What is a ballad?
Example: Oprah did okay
What is an understatement?