Literary Terms Nick Franco Andrés Orjales Justin Roberts Truman Towle

Repetition Definition Repeating sounds, words, phrases, or concepts in a literary work to create unity and emphasis. Example Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn… Ash-Wednesday by T.S. Eliot

Selection Definition A literary text which is chosen for reading or performance. Example Choosing to read a book or other literary work to an audience.

Order of the Details Definition The way in which an author reveals certain details to the reader. Example "The loach, in its general aspect, has a pellucid appearance: its back is mottled with irregular collections of small black dots, not reaching much below the linea lateralis, as are the black and tail fins: a black line runs from each eye down to the nose; its belly is of a silvery white; the upper jaw projects beyond the lower, and is surrounded with six feelers, three on each side: its pectoral fins are large, its ventral much smaller; the fin behind its anus small; its dorsal fin large, containing eight spines; its tail, where it joins to the tail-fin, remarkably broad, without any taperness, so as to be characteristic of this genus: the tail-fin is broad, and square at the end. From the breadth and muscular strength of the tail it appears to be an active nimble fish." - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne by Gilbert White

Epiphany Definition A sudden, overwhelming insight or revelation evoked by a commonplace object or a scene in a poem or a work of fiction. Example Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence for his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped at the call. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life! A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gate of all the ways of error and glory. - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

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