1. Apostrophe

2. *A literary device
*Speaker speaks to someone or thing that is not capable of responding.
Ex: “And thou, Dejection, begone!”

3. Oxymoron

4. *Figure of speech
*Combines two contradictory elements
EX – Jumbo shrimp

5. Conceit

6. Extended comparison of two highly dissimilar things.

7. Denouement

8. Follows climax and leads to a resolution in the story.

9. Conflict

10. Struggle b/w opposing forces.

11. Irony

12. Types: situational, dramatic, verbal (sarcasm)
Difference b/w what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant.
Types: situational, dramatic, verbal (sarcasm)
is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a
gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a
writer says, and what is generally understood.

13. Dramatic Irony

14. Dramatic Irony
-creates tension by emphasizing the gap in knowledge between the audience and some or all of the characters on stage.
Plot device in which audience has knowledge of events and individuals that a character does not have.

15. Cosmic Irony

16. Cosmic Irony
-reveals human beings to be at the mercy of a cruel fate.

17. Structural Irony

18. Structural Irony
-occurs when a central character in a work has a naïve view of the world that runs counter to the experiences of the other characters and the audience or reader.

19. Verbal Irony

20. Verbal Irony
-a toned-down form of sarcasm in which someone says one thing but means another.

21. Soliloquy

22. Monologue in which character in a play is alone and speaks thoughts aloud.

23. Symbolism

24. Device where an object represents an idea.

25. Novel

26. Long work of fiction.

27. Climax

28. *The turning point in a story.
*Third part of plot structure.
*Point in which actions stop rising and begins falling.

29. Cliché

30. An overused expression.
Ex: “I’m hotter than a firecracker!”

31. Characterization

32. Method a writer uses to reveal personality of the character.

33. Imagery

34. Sensory detail in a work used to evoke feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object.

35. Hyperbole

36. *Figure of speech
*Overstatement characterized by exaggerated language.

37. Satire

38. Literary work that holds up human failing to ridicule or censure.
Ex: Gulliver’s Travels

39. Antagonist

40. A character that opposes the leading character/protagonist.

41. Theme

42. A work’s message; contains the general idea.

43. Anecdote

44. *A very brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident.
*Always based on real-life experiences, sometimes humorous.

45. Allusion

46. A reference in one literary work to a character of theme found in another literary work.

47. Foreshadowing

48. Builds suspense by providing hints of what is to come.

49. Sarcasm

50. Verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical.

51. Resolution

52. Part of a story or drama that occurs after climax and establishes a new way things will be from then on.

53. Flashback

54. Plot structure device where a scene from fictional past is inserted into fictional present or out of order.

55. Paradox

56. A seemingly contradictory statement that may actually be true.

57. Analogy

58. Comparing two like things for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea.

59. Exposition

60. Part of the structure at the beginning of a story or play that sets the scene, introduces and identifies characters.

61. Allegory

62. Extended comparison to include an entire work or large portion of a work.

63. Motif

64. An element in a work that runs through it, helping to unify the work, such as symbols, images, and themes.

65. Alliteration

66. Repetition of initial consonant sounds through a sequence of words.
Ex: While I nodded, nearly napping.

67. Personification

68. A figure of speech, where animals, ideas or inorganic things are given human characteristics

69. Elegy

70. A song or poem that is written in couplets, that expresses sorrow or grief for someone that has died

71. Couplet

72. A style of poetry that expresses a complete thought in two written lines with ending words that rhyme

73. Simile

74. A type of figurative language that makes a comparison to two objects, by using the words “like” or “as”

75. Spenserian Sonnet

76. Developed for by Spenser for The Faerie Queen
Nine iambic lines; the first eight lines are pentameter
The ninth line is iambic hexameter
Rhyme scheme: ababbcbbc

77. Shakespearean Sonnet

78. Not created by Shakespeare but he was the form’s most prominent user
Fourteen lines
Formed by three quatrains (abab cdcd efef) and a couplet (gg)
Volta: a counterstatement to the meaning of the sonnet, usually found in the couplet.

79. The Bob and Wheel

80. Form found in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (alliterative verse)
The “bob” is the first short line in a group of rhyming lines which contains one or two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable; the bob usually maintains the alliteration of the previous lines
The “wheel” is a quatrain with each line containing three stresses
This structure as an ABABA rhyming pattern

81. Voice

82. Voice is a literary term used to describe the individual writing style of an author.
Voice is a combination of a writer’s use of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc. within a given body of text
Can also be referred to as the specific fingerprint of an author, as every author has a different writing style

83. Tone

84. The mood or feeling of a literary work