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repetition at close intervals of consonant sounds for a purpose
ex. "good grief"
What is Alliteration?
a mild substitution for a crude, hurtful, or otherwise offensive expression
ex. "Jeez"
What is Euphemism?
two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side to develop comparisons and contrasts
ex. All's fair in love and war
What is Juxtaposition?
a type of personification that attributes human emotions to things that are non-human: objects, weather, animals
What is Pathetic Fallacy?
how a writer says something; can include word choice, syntax, and tone
What is Style?
unexplained reference to something in literature, history, religion texts...
ex. Romeo and Juliet
What is Allusion?
moves the reader from the chronological narrative to the past
ex. "The backfiring of the bus sent the older man spiraling back to his youth."
What is Flashback?
comparison of two different things by saying one is the other
ex. She was a snake
What is Metaphor?
The central character in the story
ex. Harry Potter
What is Protagonist?
the central idea(s) in a literary work
What is Theme?
repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more clauses, sentences, or paragraphs
ex. “You are kind, you are smart, and you are important"
What is Anaphora?
character who provides a striking contrast to another character
ex. "Neville Longbottom is a foil to Harry Potter, yet they are not enemies"
What is Foil?
feeling or atmosphere a writer creates for the reader through setting, characterization, diction
ex. anger, calm, hopeful
What is Mood?
ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions
What is Satire?
the writer’s, narrator’s attitude toward a subject
What is Tone?
character or force that opposes the protagonist (can be the character himself)
ex. The Joker
What is Antagonist?
author hints at plot developments directly or indirectly that don't occur until later in the story
What is Foreshadowing?
recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work
ex. every time two characters are in conflict, it is raining outside
direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as
ex. as cold as ice
What is Simile?
an author or narrator’s distinctive manner of expression
What is Voice?
representation of traits, motives, and psychology of character
What is Characterization?
an exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect
ex. I slept for a week after that tough practice
What is Hyperbole?
the person from whose point of view events are conveyed
What is Narrator?
the time, place for the actions to occur; values -concepts of enduring worth and importance; principles associated with the time and place of the setting; social economic conditions
What is Setting?
Soft as a feather
What is Simile?
struggle between two opposing forces: man vs man; man vs self, man vs society; man vs nature
ex. disagreeing with what someone says
What is Conflict?
means something different from what the words actually say
ex. break a leg
What is idiom?
statement that appears to contradict itself
What is Paradox?
a person, object, idea, or action that stands for something else
ex. Black representing evil
What is Symbol?
heart of gold
What is Metaphor?
author's word choice or style of the speaker: formal, standard, slang; connotative or denotative
ex. abstract
What is Diction?
characters, situations, dialogue are very different from how they actually appear
ex. A fire station burns down
What is Irony?
a kind of metaphor in which an inanimate object, abstract thing, or non-human animal is described in human terms
ex. The trees were singing in the wind
What is Personification?
how the author structures a sentence (this includes punctuation, parallel structure, anaphora etc...)
What is Syntax?
The ocean was angry
What is Personification?