LITERATURE

CONCEPTS
AND
TERMS
Familiarize
YOURSELF
FIGURES OF SPEECH-
FORM OF EXPRESSION TO
CONVEY MEANING OR
HEIGHTEN EFFECT
 SIMILE
• COMPARISON introduced
by
“LIKE” or “AS”

• With eyes as
bright as the
dipper.
 METAPHOR
• Suggests COMPARISO
N without the use
“LIKE” or “AS”

• The road was a ribbon of mo

onlight.
PERSONIFICATION
• Attribution of human
qualities, actions, or feelin
gs to
things or concept.
• The fog comes on little cat
feet. It sits looking over harbor
and city.
 HYPERBOLE
•Exaggeration for
emphasis
•It’s raining cats
and dogs.
 METONYMY
•Name of one thing us
ed
for another thing with w
hich is closely associa
ted
 ANTONOMASIA
•Word or phrase sub
stituted for a person’
s proper name

• The Bard of Avon-

RHETORICAL DEVICES
(RESOURCE OF
LANGUAGE)-TO CONVEY
A MEANING WITH A
GOAL OF PERSUADING
 OXYMORON
• Bringing together TWO
opposites or contradictor
y ideas

Curse, bless, me
now with
 APOSTROPHE
• Addressing someone or
something that is not pre
sent

Roll on thou deep

and
 ASSONANCE
•Repetition of vowel so
unds
I arise from drea
ms of
 ALLITERATION
•Repetition of consona
nt
sounds
The splendor fal
 ANAPHORA
• Repetition of WORD/S
at the
beginning of two or more
successive clauses.
•A time to be born
LITERARY
TERMS
 COMEDY
• DRAMATIC
LITERATURE deals with
the
LIGHT or AMUSING or
with SERIOUS and
PROFOUND in a light,
familiar, or satirical
manner.
 FARCE
• DRAMATIC
COMPOSITION uses
improbable
situations, stereotyped
characters and
exaggeration
 ALLEGORY
• Symbolic FICTIONAL
NARRATIVE that
shows SECONDARY
MEANINGS
BILDUNGSROMAN
• Class of GERMAN
NOVEL deals with the
FORMATIVE YEARS
of the MAIN
CHARACTER
 MAGIC REALISM
•Incorporation
of FANTASTIC
or MYTHICAL
ELEMENTS
STREAM of CONSCIOUSNESS
technique
• Narrative
non-dramatic
fiction to render
flow of visual,
auditory, physical,
associative
impressions
 SATIRE
• LITERARY
COMPOSITION
containing human
or individual vices,
abuses, or
shortcomings by
means of ridicule, irony.
 ALLUSION
•IMPLIED or
indirect
REFERENCE to a
person, event,
or thing.
FORESHADOWING
• Presentation of
events in a work
of fiction so that
reader is
prepared for what
occurs later in the
work.
 FLASHBACK
• Literary or theatrical te
chnique used in
motion pictures,
involves interruption of
the chronological
sequence of events by
interjection of events of
earlier occurrence.