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a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
What is Allegory?
a literary device in which a writer uses one thing usually a physical object or phenomenon to represent something more abstract.
What is symbols?
the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
What is Diction?
a report on what someone else said or wrote without using that person's exact words.
What is Indirect Narration?
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is Personification?
a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
What is Analogy?
a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.
what is a motif?
a form of writing that shows the accent and way people talk in a particular region.
a style of third-person narration which uses some of the characteristics of third-person along with the essence of first-person direct speech.
What is Free Indirect Narration?
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
What are Similes?
A version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.
What is Extended Metaphors?
the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
What is juxtaposition?
a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.
What is Colloquialism?
spoken or written text that reports speech or thought in its original form phrased by the original speaker; in narrative, it is usually enclosed in quotation marks but can be enclosed in guillemets.
What is Direct Narration?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period.
What is Pastiche?
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
What is a paradox?
an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is Connotation?
Part of the figurative language in a literary work, whereby the author uses vivid images to describe a phenomenon.
What is Imagery?
the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
What is an Understatement?
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
What is Parody?
the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.
What is Syntax?
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
What is Denotation?
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is Metaphors?
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
What is Antithesis?