Poetry and Drama Literary Terms

Vocabulary flashcards covering literary terms, devices, and definitions from the Poetry and Drama study notes.

Poetry

Literary worth in which special intersity is given to expressions of feeling and ideas.

Alliteration

Repeated consenant sounds in a phrase or sentence.

Characterization

The techniques the writer uses to let the reader knows about the characters.

Connotation

All the feelings, experiences, traditions or emotions associated with a word.

Denotation

The dictionary definition of a word.

Figurative language

Ways of using language that expands the literal meaning of words.

Foreshadowing

A technique for plot development where an author gives clues.

Hyperbole

Extreme exageration used to increase the effect of a statement or phrose.

Imagery

Details that approach to the senses.

Inversion

Reversal of the order of words in a sentence in order to create a special effect.

Irony

A contrast between what appears to be and what really is.

Metaphor

A comparison between two things that are ordinarily not alike.

Mood

The feeling in a piece of writing.

Inomatopeia

Use of word that makes a sound which conveys its meaning.

Personification

The giving of human characters to a nonliving object.

Not

A series of events that the author writes to construct the story.

Point of view

The relationship through which or from which the story is told.

Rhyme

The repeating of sounds, rhyme may occur withing the lines of writing or at the end of the lines.

Rythm

The flow or movement of the sounds in words that brings combination of stressed and untressed syllables in words.

Satire

A piece of writing which the auther makes fun of someone, a group or society.

Setting

The place in which the story occur.

Simile

Comparison between two unlike things using likhe or as.

Stereotype

A generalized belief or idea about a character, place or situation.

Symbol

A person, object, event or place that has its own menning but suggests one or more meanings as well.

Theme

The main meaning or idea of a piece of writing.

Tone

The approach or attitude that the writer takes toward the subject of the writing.