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Foreshadowing
When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story.
Genre
The major category into which a literary work fits.
Gothic
Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death. Also refers to an architectural styleof the middle ages, often seen in cathedrals of this period.
Imagery
Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind.
Invective
A long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language.
Irony
When the opposite of what you expect to happen does.
Verbal irony
When you say something and mean the opposite/something different.
Dramatic irony
When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out.
Situational irony
Found in the plot (or story line) of a book, story, or movie. Sometimes it makes you laugh because it's funny how things turn out.
Juxtaposition
Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison.
Mood
The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice (diction).
Syntax
is often a creator of mood since word order, sentence length and strength and complexity also affect pacing and therefore mood.
Motif
a recurring idea in a piece of literature.
Oxymoron
When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox
Pacing
The speed or tempo of an author’s writing. Writers can use a variety of devices
Paradox
A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true
Parallelism
Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other,
Anaphora
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row.
Chiasmus
When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the words is reversed.
Antithesis
Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure.
Zuegma (Syllepsis)
When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies.
Parenthetical Idea
Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence.
Parody
An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes.
Persona
The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story.
Poetic device
A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
Assonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
Consonance
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words.
Onomatopoeia
The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.
Internal rhyme
When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line.
Slant rhyme
When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly – they are merely similar.
End rhyme
When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme.
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of a poem’s end rhymes. For example, the following lines have a rhyme scheme of a b a b c d c d:
Stressed and unstressed syllables
In every word of more than one syllable, one of the syllables is stressed, or said with more force than the other syllable(s).
Meter
A regular pattern to the syllables in lines of poetry.
Free verse
Poetry that doesn’t have much meter or rhyme.
Iambic pentameter
Poetry that is written in lines of 10 syllables, alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.
Sonnet
A 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter. Usually divided into three quatrains and a couplet.
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