1. English 3 Literary Terms

2. apostrophe
a rhetorical device (way of speaking) in which the speaker directly and often emotionally addresses a person who is dead or absent, an imaginary or non-human entity, or a place or concept

3. flashback
A scene that interrupts the present action of a narrative to depict some earlier event via remembrance, dreaming, etc.

5. tone
author’s attitude toward the reader, audience, or subject matter of a work

6. mood
General feeling created for the reader or audience

7. Overstatement/hyperbole
Deliberate, emphatic exaggeration, often for comedic effect

8. parallelism
the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same, or similar, in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

9. irony
Situational: we expect one thing to happen, but the opposite does
Dramatic: we know something the characters don’t
Verbal: say one thing, mean the opposite

11. characterization
Various means by which an author describes/develops a character
Flat character: lacks depth and complexity
Round character: fully developed, with complexity and depth associated with real people
Static: doesn’t change
Dynamic: changes

13. euphemism
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

14. foreshadowing
Introducing material that prepares the reader or audience for future events, actions, or revelations

15. juxtaposition
two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts

16. Point of view Vantage point from which the story is told
First person: author tell story through character who refers to him/herself as “I” or “me”
Second person: narrator addresses a “you”

17. Point of view Vantage point from which the story is told Third person
Omniscient – narrator observers (pronouns “she,” “he,” and “it”); all-knowing
Limited – recounts the story through eyes of single character; reader only knows thoughts and feelings of that one character