World Literature terms

an expressed comparison of unlike things in which the worlds like, as resembles or are used

A comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal is

an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another

exaggeration to emphasize the truth

meaning in its self but also represents something beyond itself

Addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive or addressing an absent person as if he were present

central idea which gives the story meaning

saying the opposite of what is meant

contrasting what a character says and what a reader or audience knows to be true;

presenting a discrepancy between appearance and reality or between expectation and fulfillment

the ridicule of human folly or vice with the purpose or correcting it

A LITERARY PIECE IS THE MANNER IN WHICH THE WRITER DEALS WITH  HIS SUBJECT AND THE GENTERAL EFFECT IT IS METN TO  HAVE ON ITS AUDIENCE

a narrative or description I which the characters, places, and other items are symbols is