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ForeshadowForeshadow
Literary TermsLiterary TermsBy: Brian, Rachel, and Eddie
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The main event of a play, novel, or similarwork, devised and presented by the writeras an interrelated sequence.
Example- The plot to the play was very
captivating.
PlotPlot
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The time and place at which an event in aplay, book, film takes place.
Example-the setting was at a cold lonelyhouse in Wisconsin.
SettingSetting
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A particular attitude or way of considering amatter.
Example-The point of view for the story wasin third person omniscient.
Point-of-viewPoint-of-view
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Describing the distinctive nature or featuresof something.
Example-The Grinchs character is a stingybeast with a heart three sizes to small.
CharacterizationCharacterization
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Is the subject of writing or talking; apersons thoughts about an exhibition.
Example-The theme of the book washonesty.
ThemeTheme
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The occurrence of the same letter or soundat the beginning of adjacent or closelyconnected words.
Example-An example is the Mother Goose
tongue twister, "Peter Piper picked a peck ofpickled peppers.
AlliterationAlliteration
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An expression designed to call something tomind mentioning it explicitly.
Example-An image you see the is distortedwhen you look at it.
AllusionAllusion
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A comparison between two things, typicallyon the basis of their structure and for thepurpose of the explanation or clarification.
Example- he analogy between the heart and
a pump.
AnalogyAnalogy
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A person who actively opposes or is hostileto someone or something.
Example-The devil is the antagonist of theBible.
AntagonistAntagonist
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On one side; out of the way; puttingsomething aside of a play that necessarilydoesnt need to be heard.
Example- Charles spoke aside to the
audience about his afflictions with James inthe play.
AsideAside
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Is a verse without rhyme or specific style ina verse or poem.
Example- You stars that reign'd at mynativity,Whose influence hath allotted
death and hell,Now draw up Faustus like afoggy mistInto entrails of yon labouringclouds,That when they vomit forth into theair,My limbs may issue from their smoky
mouths,Sothat my soul may but ascend toHeaven.
Blank verseBlank verse
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Comic relief is a dramatic or literary workthat offset more serious sections.
Example- William Shakespeare uses comicrelief in Romeo and Juliet.
Comic reliefComic relief
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An incompatibility between two or moreopinions, principles, or interests.
Example- The conflict of Avatar was thatboth the humans and the blue people
wanted the precious metals on this pieceof land so they fought over it.
ConflictConflict
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Two lines verses, usually in the same meterand joined by rhyme, that forms a unit.
Example- true wit is nature to advantagedress'd;What oft was thought, but ne'er so
well express'd.
CoupletCouplet
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The choice and use of words and phrases inspeech or writing.
Example-good diction.
DictionDiction
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The expression of ones meaning by usinglanguage that normally signifies theopposite, typically for humorous effect.
Example-When a man tries to leave a war,
but he ends up dying.
Dramatic IronyDramatic Irony
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Is the basis of the drama in the literarypiece.
Example- Most all movies, plays and bookshave a dramtic structureexposition,
rising action, climax, falling action,resolution.
Dramatic StructureDramatic Structure
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An adjective or descriptive phraseexpressing a quality characteristic of theperson or thing mentioned.
Example-"wine-dark sea,"
EpithetEpithet
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a metaphorical language that is used todescribe what you are talking about.
Example- Cindy liked to eat because shewas a mule.
Figurative LanguageFigurative Language
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A warning or indication of a future eventthat my occur.
Example- Joseff had a dream sent from anAngel that Herod would come to try to kill
Jesus
ForeshadowingForeshadowing
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To prevent a plan or process fromsucceeding.
Example- Jesus is the foil to Satan.
FoilFoil
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Visual descriptive or figurative language. Example- he dim imagery of a dream
ImageryImagery
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The expression of ones meaning by usinglanguage that normally signifies theopposite effect.
Example-In the departed in the end the
good guy or foil gets shot and dies irony.
IronyIrony
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Prosody in nouns denoting lines of poetrywith a specified number of feet ormeasures.
Example- Is like the beat of the song. The
more foot the more meters.
MeterMeter
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A figure of speech in which a word or phraseis applied to an object or action to which itis not literally applicable.
Example- Saying that you were a wall and
bounced a ball back over the net.
MetahporMetahpor
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A long speech by one actor in a play ormovie, or as part of a theatrical orbroadcast program.
Example-In a movie were the character does
a speech explaining the scene.
MonologueMonologue
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A figure of speech in which apparentlycontradictory terms appear in conjunction.
Example- A fine mess
OxymoronOxymoron
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The attribution of a personal nature orhuman characteristic to somethingnonhuman.
Example-An example is of Garfield a talking
cat.
PersonificationPersonification
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The leading character or one of the majorcharacters in a drama, movie, novel, orother fictional text.
Example- An example is the main character,
Will Smith, in Hancock.
ProtagonistProtagonist
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A joke exploiting the different possiblemeanings of a word.
Example- The man who impulsively got a catdespite his allergies later realized that it
was a rash decision. Website: http://www.punoftheday.com/cgi-
bin/disppuns.pl?ord=N&cat=0&sub=0&page=1
PunPun
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The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end ofa poem or verse.
Example-There once was a big brown cat
a That liked to eat a lot ofmice. b He got all roundand fat a Becausethey tasted so nice. b
http://www.rbuhsd.k12.ca.us/~rgrow/Rhyme%20Schemes.html
Rhyme SchemeRhyme Scheme
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A figure of speech involving the comparisonof on thing with another thing of a differentkind.
SimileSimile
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A situation, which brings upon irony. Example- When a mans family thinks that
he going to work, but instead he goes tothe beach.
Situational IronySituational Irony
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An act of speaking ones thoughts aloudwhen by oneself.
Example- When your sitting at home andyou burst laughing after thinking of
something funny.
SoliloquySoliloquy
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A poem of fourteen lines using any of anumber of formal rhyme schemes.
Example-
SonnetSonnet
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A thing that represents a certain object. Example- In certain places a statue can
represent a god.
SymbolSymbol
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An event causing great suffering, distress, ordestruction.
Example- When when a man dies and leaveshis children alone.
TragedyTragedy
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Irony caused by verbal conversation. Example- ".... If you ask for me tomorrow,
you shall find me a grave man. ... Romeoand Juliet.
Verbal IronyVerbal Irony