Literary Terms
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- Anaphora
- repetition of a word at beginning of successive phrases for emphasis
- Theme
- the main idea in the story
- Consonance
- the repitition of consonant sounds before and after different vowels
- Alliteration
- repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence
- Imagery
- figurative description or illustration; rhetorical images collectively.
- Aphorism
- A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.
- Allegory
- A symbolic representation
- Symbolism
- The use of words, places, people, or objects to mean something beyond their literal meaning.
- Assonance
- the repitition of some or similar vowel sounds in stressed syables that end with different consonant sounds
- Metaphor
- a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles
- Motif
- An obvious, repeated theme.
- Allusion
- A reference to a historical or literal person, place, or event, with which the reader is assumed to be familiar
- Irony
- a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or ostensibly stated.
- Paradox
- a statement that seems to be ridiculous or contradicting but is true
- Personification
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- Personae
- narrator/ storyteller of a literary work created by the author