Literary Terms 4

A writer's distinctive manner of expression.

Suggests some sort of discrepancy between appearance and reality.

The direct speech of characters in a story, punctuated by quotation marks.

A figure of speech in which an imaginative comparision is made between two dissimilar things without the use of the word like or as.

A direct comparison of two unlike thing WITH the use of the worlds like or as.

A story element that represents a broader idea while maintaining its literal meaning.

A type of story in which characters and events correspond to concepts. An allegory uses symbol to reveal basic truths about human existance.