lit terms

• indirect reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work which the writer assumes the reader knows about
• the allusion links the text to the larger meaning of the text

• illustrates the idea by liking the current idea to a more familiar idea that is easier to understand
• typically uses an extended simile

the most prominent of a story's characters who opposes the hero

personal rememberance in which the writer tells the story of his or her own life

a song or poem that dramatically retells the sotry of a popular figure

a book or story written about the life of someone else

• unrhymed form of poetry
• each line is 10 syllables and every other is stressed (iambic pentameter)

the rising and falling, the rhythm, of speech

• a pause in a line or verse
• a rest or breath

• individual vs self
• individual vs society
• individual vs nature
• individual vs fate

the range of further associations that a word may have other than its dictionary definition

an established practice used by authors of literary works

a pair of lines in a verse that form a unit

the accepted, dictionary, meaning of a word

the resolution or undoing of central problems of a story

variations in a language based on regional, cultural, or social class differences

conversation carried on between characters in a literary work

word choice

temporary departure from the main subject to address a separate idea

speeach in which the character speaks to themselves, or to the audience

the act of placing yourself in the position of others

long narrative poem that tells the story of a hero

a brief, witty poem that often makes fun of the idea that it examines

a short peom or verse placed in the beginning of a book which bears some relation to the book's theme

concluding section of a story

a narrative constructed around a serioes of distinct but related incidents

words or peom suited for iscription on a tomb or gravestone

• a short written composition in prose that examines a particular subject in depth
• analytical, reflective, causee-effect, personal

a eurpoean philosophy which several authors have adapeted to fiction and drama to explore the themes of meaningless, individual freedom, and alienation that plague humanity

• writting that makes clear something that might be difficult for the reader to understand
• it helps the reader to understand the larger action or subject of the text

• stories created from imagination
• novels, short stories

the smallested repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse

early on in the story the author gives hints of what will come later

poetry with no regular meter or rhyme

exaggeration or overstatment of the truth

• iampic; a poetry foot of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
• pentameter; ten syllable line which may or may not ryhme

descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates an image

using a phrase to mean the opposite of its literal or nomral meaning

a comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison is used

the patterened repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

relates to the feeling a text arouses in its reader

a frequently recurring theme or idea

the person telling the story

POP! CRASH! BOOM!

self-contradictory combination of words

a short story that illustrates a particular moral

form of literature that mocks the literary work or style

• a statement that is seemingly contradictiory but found to be true
• ie. less is more

giving an animal or object human characteristics

writing that is not composed acording to rules or forms of poetry

• the main character
• the hero

a word or phrase used to imply other possible meanings

the deliberate use of eloquece to persuade others feelings

the way in which sound is used in a poem

behaviors and institutions are ridiculed for the purpose of improvement

compares two unlike things using like or as

a speech a character delivers while alone

a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter

how a writter uses words, images, and phrases to create a feeling or convey a thought

summery

the deep structure consisting of the tests ideas and truths which the writer tries to convey

relates to the overall feeling that a story can create