Lit. terms
A genre in which the story is set in the past, but the story itself is made up.
Historical Fiction
The main idea of a literary work.
Theme
When the writer gives a hint of what’s to come.
Foreshadowing
When an animal or something nonliving is portrayed with a human action.
Personification
A figure of speech that involves exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Fiction based on imagined future or technological advances.
Science fiction
The attitude of a writer towards the audience.
Tone
The repetition of the same stressed vowel in the rhyme scheme.
Exact Rhyme
A literary device that has two successive rhyming lines in a verse.
Couplet
A poem in which the poet praises something.
Ode
A rhyming structure in which the last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.
End rhyme
A character that does not undergo changes in the narrative.
Static character
This type of character undergoes changes throughout the narrative.
Dynamic character
A device used in which particular aspects are exaggerated to create a silly or comical effect.
Caricature
Prose writing based on facts.
Nonfiction
Manipulating information to make a product appear better than it is often by unfair comparison or omitting facts.
Card stacking
An object or idea that repeats itself throughout a literary work.
Motif
A phrase that is understood to mean something different from the individual words of the phrase.
Idiom
The spreading of rumors or ideas in order to influence the opinions of society.
Propaganda
The use of objects to signify ideas and qualities.
Symbolism
The deliberate repetition of the first line of a poem or speech or sentence.
Anaphora
The error of a timeline in a literary work.
Anachronism
When a famous person of figure endorses or supports a product.
Testimonial
A kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his/her youth to childhood.
Bildungsroman
The use of components that are grammatically the same or similar in construction and meaning.
Parallelism