Literary Terms
- Date January 14, 2022
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Means “advance guard” or “vanguard” and is used to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.
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A repetition of sentences using the same structure.
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The structure of a story; the sequence in which the author arranges events in a story; the structure of a five-act play often includes the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution.
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A statement which can contain two or more meanings.
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The emotional content of a word.
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The dictionary definition of a word.
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A mild word or phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, offensive.
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The result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected.
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The audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not.
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The contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant.
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The use of angry and insulting language.
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Pervasive irony created by a structural feature such as a naive protagonist whose viewpoint is consistently wrong, shared by neither author nor reader is known as this.
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A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words “like” or “as.”
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The hero or central character of a literary work.
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A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
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A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant.
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Wise saying; proverb; short, memorable saying that expresses a truth and is handed down from one generation to the next.
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A purification of emotions in literature or art.
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An author’s choice of words.
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A word or phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character in literature.
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