Literary Terms

• *main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses
• *if period placed at the end of the independent clause, the clause would be a complete sentence
• *a work containing many loose sentences often seems informal, relaxed and conversational

*placing dissimilar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side by side especially for comparison or contrast

• *contrast between what is states explicitly and what is really meant
• *difference between what appears to be and what is actually true
• *used to create poignancy or humor
• *verbal: words literally state the opposite of the writer's/speaker's true meaning
• *situational: events tuen out the opposite of what was expected; what the characters and the readers think is supposed to happen does not actually happen
• *dramatic: facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work

*emotionally violent verbal denunciation or attack using strong abusive language

• *to draw a reasonable conclusion for the info presented.
• *most direct, most reasonable inference is the safest answer choice
• *if implausible its unlikely to be the correct answer
• *if answer choice is directly stated it not inferred and is wrong

• *sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions
• *uses terms related to the five senses
• *one image can represent more then one thing
• *author may use complex imagery while at the same time employing other figures of speech, especially metaphor and simile
• *can apply to the total of all the images in a work

• *"sermon"
• *any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice

• *major category into which a literary work fits
• *basic divisions of literature: prose, poetry and drama
• *genres can be divided into genres
• *autobiography, biography, diaries, criticism, and essays
• *journalistic, political, scientific, and nature writing

• *describes traditions for each genre
• *help to define each genre
• *differentiate between an essay and journalistic writing or an autobiography and political writing

• *used to produce figurative language
• *many compare dissimilar things
• *include apostraphe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement.