Literary Terms
Literary Terms
Lit Terms
Mad Lit Terms
Extra Crispy Terms
100
  1. artful deviations from literal speech or normal word order

figurative  language

100
  1. a story with 2 or more levels of meaning

allegory

100
  1.  seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement that when investigated or explained may prove to be true.

paradox

100
  1. the mood created by how the author feels toward the subject written about 

tone

100
  1. rigid and unfailing adherence to the truth

veracity

200
  1.  use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning,

parallelism

200
  1. the feeling, emotion, or mood that an author creates in a narrative through descriptive language.

atmosphere

200
  1.  the image in a metaphor that the tenor is being compared to

vehicle

200
  1. laugh quietly or with restrain

chortle

200
  1.  to officially pronounce someone to be innocent of an accused crime

exonerate

300
  1.  words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions

imagery

300
  1. - a problem, antagonism, or struggle that takes place between a character and an outside force

external conflict 

300
  1. language that creates harshness or dissonance

cacophony

300
  1. a phenomenon that is caused by some previous phenomenon

consequence

300
  1.  to consent without protest
  1.  to consent without protest
400
  1. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, 

personification

400
  1. it is the voice chosen by the author for a particular artistic purpose.

persona

400
  1. when words or phrases are repeated in a literary work.

repetition

400
  1. joyful and proud especially because of success

triumphant

400
  1. having to devotion to or appreciation of music

philharmonic

500
  1. a motif that uses part of something to stand for the whole of something

synecdoche

500
  1. an indirect or passing reference to something not in the current work

allusion

500
  1. a metaphor that extends through several lines or even an entire passage
extended metaphor
500
  1.  one or pertaining to one who hates mankind

misanthropic

500
  1. stubbornness

obstinacy

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