Literary Terms
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
Assonance
Repetition of the sound of a vowel
Ballad
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
Climax
The most intense, exciting, or important point of something
Consonance
The recurrence of similar sounds
Contrast
The state of being struggling different from something else or a close association
End rhyme
A rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of a verse
Flashback
A scene in a movie, novel, etc. say anytime earlier than the main story
Hyperbole
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Idiom
A group of words established by a usage as having a meaning not from those of the individual words
Falling action
What happens near the end of a story after the climax and resolution of the major conflict
Exposition
A comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory
Enjabment
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of the line
Foreshadowing
be a warning or indication of a future event
Imagery
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work
Internal rhyme
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of the line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
Irony
The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite
Metaphor
Anything regarded as representative or is symbolic of something else
Meter
The arithmetic pattern of a poetic line
Mood
A temporary state of mind refilling
Motif
A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition
Novel
A fictitous to save prose narrative of Brook length
Onomatopoeia
Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in a conjunction