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A figurative comparison made using the words like, as, than, or resembles
What is a simile?
A figurative comparison made by saying or suggesting that one thing is another
What is a metaphor?
A recurring object, color, idea, etc, that helps develop the theme of the text
What is a motif?
A reference of a previous literary work (song, poem, book, myth, movie, etc.) to history or religion
What is an allusion?
A character’s internal struggle- man vs self
What is an internal conflict?
Conflict with a character and an outside force; man vs self, man vs society
What is an external conflict?
A genre of fictional writing in which the story is made up but is set in the past in a specific time period such as the Civil War or the Great Depression
What is historical fiction?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings
What is a pun?
A category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
What is a genre?
A statement that seems to contradict itself but is somehow true
What is a paradox?
A character who undergoes an important, internal change because of the action in the plot
What is a dynamic character?
A character who doesn’t undergo any significant changes
What is a static character?
A character that is well rounded with many traits
What is a round character?
A character that has only one or two personality traits
What is a flat character?
A genre of fictional writing used to explore social and political issues in a nightmarish world; a utopia is an imaginary place in which everything is perfect
What is dystopian literature?
A genre of fictional writing, in which the story can be read on more than one level, including the surface meaning and hidden meaning.
What is an allegory?
Any comparison, including literal and figurative
What is an analogy?
The literal meaning/definition of a word
What is denotation?
The author’s intentional choice of words
What is diction?
The feelings or emotions connected to a word
What is connotation?
The repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring non rhyming words
What is assonance?
The recurrence of similar consonant sounds in neighboring words
What is consonance?
Using a closely related object to represent a person or thing (ex. using "suits" to represent business people)
What is metonymy?
Using a part to represent the whole. (Ex. "All hands on deck" represents all persons)
What is synechdoche?
Giving human traits, ambitions, emotions, or entire behaviors to animals or objects
What is anthropomorphism?