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Title: Literary Terms


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Literary Terms
  • Understanding what makes literature work.

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Oxymoron
  • When two contradictory words are put together.
  • dark light
  • hot ice
  • living dead
  • genuine imitation

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Alliteration
  • The repetition of consonant sounds in neighboring
    words.
  • Alliteration is commonly in poetry but can also
    be seen in prose.
  • Tennyson
  • The moan of doves in immemorial elms,And
    murmuring of innumerable bees.
  • Beowulf
  • Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings,
    Leader beloved, and long he ruled In fame with
    all folk since his father had gone

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Simile
  • The comparison of two unlike things using like or
    as.
  • He eats like a pig.
  • Hes as quick as a bunny.
  • Shes as cute as a button.
  • Her smile is like a ray of sunshine.

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Metaphor
  • A figure of speech that makes a comparison
    between two unlike quantities, that unlike a
    simile, does not the words "like" or "as."
  • From Shakespeares Macbeth
  • Life's but a walking shadow a poor player,That
    struts and frets his hour upon the stage.

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Personification
  • The giving of human qualities to animals or
    objects which would normally not display these
    qualities.
  • In John Keats' "To Autumn," the fall season is
    personified as having the human qualities of
    being able to sit and to sleep.
  • Thee sitting careless on a granary floor (line
    14)
  • Drowsd with the fume of poppies (line 17)

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Allegory
  • A form of extended metaphor, in which objects,
    persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated
    with meanings that lie outside the actual
    narrative. This underlying meaning has moral,
    social, religious, or political significance, and
    characters are often symbols of abstract ideas
    such as love or greed. An allegory can be seen
    as a story with two meanings, a literal meaning
    and a symbolic meaning.
  • In Edmund Spensers The Faerie Queene, Red Cross
    Knight is a heroic knight in the literal
    narrative, but also a figure representing
    everyman in the Christian journey.  Works may be
    contain allegories or be allegorical in part, but
    not many are entirely allegorical as The Faerie
    Queene is.

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Satire
  • A piece of literature designed to ridicule the
    subject of the work. A satire can be funny.
    However, its aim is not to amuse, but rather to
    arouse contempt.
  • Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" satirizes
    the English people, making them seem dwarfish in
    their ability to deal with large thoughts,
    issues, or deeds.

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Foreshadowing
  • A method used in literature to build suspense by
    providing hints of what is to come in the rest of
    the story.
  • In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," Romeo's
    expression of fear in Act 1, scene 4 foreshadows
    the catastrophe to come
  • I fear too early for my mind misgives
  • Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
  • Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
  • With this night's revels and expire the term
  • Of a despised life closed in my breast
  • By some vile forfeit of untimely death.

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Soliloquy
  • In drama, a moment when a character is alone and
    speaks his or her thoughts aloud to the
    audience.
  • The line "To be, or not to be, that is the
    question," begins Hamlets famous soliloquy from
    Act 3, scene 1 of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." Here,
    Hamlet questions whether or not life is worth
    living, and speaks out loud the reasons why he
    does not end his life.

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