Scarlet Letter Literary Terms

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Scarlet Letter Literary Terms
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allusion

• Reference to another work of literature, history,
  religion, etc.

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Extended metaphor

• Metaphor (comparison between two unlike things)
  that is carried on over several lines of poetry,
  or throughout a work of fiction.

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Affective fallacy

• A proposition in literary criticism that a a work
  should be analyzed and described in terms of its
  own internal structure and not in terms of the
  emotional response of the reader.

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Pathetic fallacy

• the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc.,
  with human traits and feelings.

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allegory

• A narrative that has a second meaning beneath the
  surface, often relating each literal term to a
  fixed, corresponding abstract idea or moral
  principle.

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anachronism

• Something or someone that is not correct in its
  historical context.

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mondegreen

• Word or phrase that is misinterpreted as another,
  usually with amusing results.

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malapropism

• Misuse of words

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zeugma

• Use of a word to modify 2 or more words when it
  is appropriate to only one, or appropriate to
  each, but in a different way.

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litotes

• Understatement especially when expressing an
  affirmative by the negative of its contrary. not
  bad at all.