10H Literary Terms

Name The Literary Term: The expression of a certain idea by saying the opposite, the difference between what happens and what the reader expects

Name The Literary Term: Repetition of grammatical elements in a piece of writing to create a harmonious effect.

Name The Literary Term: Extreme exaggeration used to make a point

Name The Literary Term: Two or more words or ideas that apparently contradict one another but actually reveal a truth

Name The Literary Term: A play on words

Name The Literary Term: How the narrator relates the events described in a piece of writing -- the perspective -- 1st, 2nd, or 3rd

Name The Literary Term: Saying the same thing more than once

Name The Literary Term: The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

Name The Literary Term: A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.

Name The Literary Term: A section of poetry separate from the sections that come before and after

Name The Literary Term: A comparison made without using the words “like” or “as”

Name The Literary Term: A hint to the reader about the general direction of the plot

Name The Literary Term: Character whose contrasts with another character serve to highlight aspects of that character

Name The Literary Term: A reference to some other piece of work, pop culture, person, etc.

Name The Literary Term: The use of an object to represent an abstract idea

Name The Literary Term: Dominant emotion reader takes from text due to description and tone

Name The Literary Term: Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Name The Literary Term: The use of words that sound like what they mean

Name The Literary Term: Language that is not literal

Name The Literary Term: An idea, symbol, pattern, or character-type, in a story that appears again and again in various cultures around the world and symbolizes something universal in the human experience.

Name The Literary Term: Two consecutive rhymed lines in poetry, typically at the end of a poem or sonnet

Name The Literary Term: The movement from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past.

Name The Literary Term: Phrase made up of opposite words

Name The Literary Term: A monologue not spoken to another character

Name The Literary Term: A general idea or message expressed by a literary work

Name The Literary Term: Sequence of events in a story