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Definition: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is Allegory?
Definition: linguistic choices a writer makes to effectively convey an idea, point of view, or tell a story.
What is diction?
Definition: a literary technique that consists of repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work.
What is motifs?
Definition: a literary device that contradicts itself but contains a plausible kernel of truth.
What is paradox?
Occurs when the audience understands something about a characters actions or events even though the character does not understand themself.
What is dramatic Irony?
Definition: a comparison of two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
What is analogy?
Definition: the narrator reports the character's thoughts or words using verbs like "said" or "thought."
What is indirect narration?
Definition: characters, motifs, or settings, images, or other motifs that stand in for bigger ideas. An example of this would be how Frankl's wife represented freedom/life before the camp in the novel Mans Search for Meaning.
What is symbols?
Definition: visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a lliterary work. An example of this is in the novel Mans Search for Meaning when Frankl describes in detail what people who were sick/dying looked like.
What is imagery?
A figure of speech in which the speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning of what he says.
What is verbal irony?
Definition: a comparison using like or as.
An example of this from things fall apart: "Enzima bubbled with energy like fresh palm wine"
What is a similie?
Definition: refers to the set of rules that determines the arrangement of words in a sentence. Along with diction, it is one of the key ways writers convey meaning in a text.
What is syntax?
Definition: the use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning.
What is connotation?
Definition: A figure of speech that is often used to make something sound much bigger and better than it is.
What is hyperbole?
Definition: an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is parody?
Definition: a literary device that assigns human features and qualities to objects or other non-human things. An example of this is in things fall apart with the quote "Yam, the king of crops, was a very exacting king. For three or four moons it demanded hard work and constant attention from cockcrow till the chickens went back to roost." Because a Yam is a plant and cannot "demand" something.
What is personification?
Definition: The use of informal words or phrases in writing or speech.
Example: Using words like "ain't" or "gonna"
What is colloquialism?
Definition: The act of using a word or symbol to signify an explicit meaning or set of meanings.
What is denotation?
A figure of speech that represents something as less than it is.
What is understatement?
Definition: an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
What is a pastiche?
Definition: when two things are placed side by side to compare the differences between the elements. An example of this is in the book Things Fall Apart when Okonkwo thinks back to his father's actions, and remembers he does not want to act like him in any way shape or form.
What is juxtaposition?
Definition: a powerful and common way of characterization, which elaborates the geographic and social background of any character.
What is dialect?
Definition: a figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another rhetorical effect.
What is a metaphor?
A pair of statements or images in which one reverses the other.
What is Antithesis?
A literary technique in which an expected outcome does not happen, or its opposite happens instead.
What is Situational Irony?