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Literary Term
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A comparison using like, as, or so
Simile
71.7%
The main character
Protagonist
70.6%
Word Choice
Diction
66.7%
Hints of what is to come
Foreshadowing
66.6%
Ex: I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse
Hyperbole
66.5%
Ex: boom, crash, bang, jitterbug
Onomatopoeia
66.5%
The time and place in which the action of the plot occurs
Setting
66.3%
Attribution of human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object
Personification
65.8%
The writer's or speaker's attitude
Tone
65.2%
The central idea of a literary work
Theme
65.1%
The struggle in the plot
Conflict
65%
Traditionally a fourteen line love poem
Sonnet
62.6%
The perspective from which a story is told
Point of View
62.5%
The main character or force which creates conflict
Antagonist
59.6%
Ex: All nerds wear glasses
Stereotype
59.1%
The atmosphere or feeling a literary work gives the reader
Mood
58.7%
Ex: bittersweet living, living death, jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
58.7%
A reference to something in previous literature or history
Allusion
56.7%
A figure of speech in which an explicit comparison is made between two unlike things
Metaphor
55.8%
Ex: To sit in solemn silence'
Alliteration
55.6%
Poetry with no fixed metrical pattern or representation
Free Verse
54.7%
Any writing that isn't poetry or drama
Prose
53.9%
A metaphor developed at length
Extended Metaphor
53.8%
Two succesive rhyming lines
Couplet
53.3%
An interruption by the introduction of an earlier event or past experience
Flashback
53%
Seize the day
Carpe Diem
52.9%
Anything that appeals to the senses
Imagery
52.3%
The use of humor to ridicule and expose the shortcomings and failings of society
Satire
52%
Non-
literal language
Figurative Language
49.9%
A story where the conflict overcomes the main character
Tragedy
49.9%
A character who contrasts with the main character
Foil
49.7%
Any literary work with a happy ending
Comedy
49.2%
A simple one-
dimensional character
Flat character
48.8%
10 syllable line made up of 5 feet with each foot containing an unaccented followed by an accented syllable
Iambic Pentameter
47.6%
A story that explains the origins of God's heroes or natural phenomenon
Myth
47.2%
The true, actual events...not figurative
Literal
47.1%
A four line stanza
Quatrain
46.7%
Something that has a deeper meaning
Symbol
46.5%
What a word suggests beyond its basic definition
Connotation
46.4%
The expression of the opposite of what is intended
Irony
46.2%
Definition/Example
Literary Term
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A short speech made by an actor onstage to the audience
Aside
46.1%
Humorous use of a word involving two interpretations of meaning
Pun
45.8%
A satirical imitation of a poem or other writing
Parody
45.7%
A sudden flash of insight
Epiphany
45.7%
The way a writer uses language
Style
45.4%
A statement of the opposite of what is meant. bitter or cutting speech
Sarcasm
45.3%
A character centering about a single quality, one that does not grow or change during the action of the plot
Static Character
45.1%
A reasonable conclusion drawn by the reader
Inference
44.9%
The ryhtmical pattern of a poem
Meter
44.5%
A dramatic monologue
Soliloquy
44.4%
A protagonist who carries the action of the literary piece but does not embody the classic characteristics of courage, strength and nobility
Anti-hero
44.3%
The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences
Syntax
44.1%
A word's most literal and limited meaning
Denotation
43.9%
One who changes as the result of actions in the plot
Dynamic Character
42.7%
A short narrative poem written in songlike stanza form
Ballad
42.6%
Ex: Owen goes over the ocean
Assonance
42.1%
A harsh combination of sounds
Cacophony
42.1%
An all-
knowing narrator
Omniscient Narrator
41.1%
Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
Blank Verse
40.9%
A usually formal poem expressing sorrow or lamentation for the dead
Elegy
40.4%
The organizational pattern of a work
Structure
40.4%
The quality of a literary work which appeals to emotion
Pathos
40.3%
Ex: My only love sprung from my only hate
Paradox
40.3%
Short story illustraing a moral or religious lesson
Parable
40.1%
Ex: 'she passed away' as opposed to 'she died'
Euphemism
39.9%
The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events
Narrative
38.7%
Ex: any soap opera
Melodrama
38.6%
A literary type classified by form and technique
Genre
37.1%
'God from the machine'
Deus ex Machina
37%
A literary form in which some or all of the characters are embodiments of abstract ideas. A story which carries a second meaning
Allegory
36.7%
A smooth, pleasant arrangement of sounds
Euphony
36.6%
Ex: much of the spoken language in Huckleberry Finn
Colloquial
36.6%
The running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza to the next in poetry
Enjambment
36.1%
Latin for 'in the middle of things'
In Media Res
35.7%
Insolence, arrogance, or pride...leads to the protagonist's downfall
Hubris
35.5%
The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words
Consonance
35.4%
A stereotypical character
Stock Character
35.1%
The art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse
Rhetoric
33.8%
Quality of being intentionally unclear
Ambiguity
33.5%
The repeated use of the same grammatical structure in a sentence
Parallelism
33.3%
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Literary Term
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A poem, play, or story that celebrates and idealizes a simple life
Pastoral
33.1%
Repetition of a line, stanza, or phrase
Refrain
32.9%
Ex: All hands on deck
Synecdoche
32.2%
The opposite of hyperbole
Litotes
31.6%
A sentence that delivers its point at the end
Periodic Sentence
31.4%
A short, emotionally expressive poem
Lyric Poem
31.4%
An emotional cleansing through expression of emotion
Catharsis
31.3%
Compares an unfamiliar object or place by comparing it to the familiar
Analogy
31.2%
Extravagant language
Bombast
30.8%
Figure of speech where the subject is not alive
Apostrophe
30.5%
A character, situation or symbol that is familiar to people from all cultures because it occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion or folklore
Archetype
30.4%
A humorous play depending on an exaggerated, improbable situation
Farce
30.2%
A brief quotation at the beginning of a literary work
Epigraph
30.1%
The ability of a work to appeal to a wide segment of the reading public
Universality
29.5%
A radical change in a character
Metamorphosis
28.9%
An element within a story that is out of its time frame
Anachronism
28.5%
The arrangement of details in such an order that the unimportant suddenly appears at the point where the critical detail should be
Anti-climax
28.3%
A pause in a line of poetry
Caesara
28.3%
Ex: Arrayed and Said or Fine and Rhyme
Approximate Rhyme
27.9%
A rhetorical device consisting of a switch in the normal word order
Inversion
27.7%
The events following the resolution of the final conflict of the plot
Denouement
27.7%
Two ideas presented closely together for contrast
Antithesis
26.9%
Ex: FOR ti fy
Dactylic
26.8%
A figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a word or phrase closely associated with it
Metonymy
25.6%
The stage setting of a play
Mise en Scene
25.3%
A witty, pointed, terse saying
Epigram
25.1%
Language describing ideas and qualities rather than specific things. people, or places
Abstract Language
24.6%
A complex or far-
fetched comparison
Conceit
24.3%
A two syllable beat with a stressed and then an unstressed syllable
Trochaic
24%
A form of satire that elevates low characters and low situations by using elevated language in literary traditions of the epic
Mock Heroic
23.6%
A recording of the thoughts and emotional experience of a character on one or more levels of consciousness
Interior Monologue
23.2%
Elevating someone to the level of God
Apotheosis
22.4%
A three beat rhythm with two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
Anapestic
21.9%
An error in diction caused by the substitution of one word for another similar in sound but different in meaning
Malapropism
21.8%
A label given to a literary work whose main purpose is to give guidance in moral, ethical, or religious matters
Didactic
21.7%
A short pithy statement of a principle or precept
Aphorism
21.3%
A word or group of words used to characterize a person.
Epithet
20.8%
Narrow in point of view or approach
Provincial
20.6%
The opposite of parallel construction
Chiasmus
18.6%
The use of a proper noun as a common name
Antonomasia
15.3%
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