Alliteration: repetition of the same sound at the start of a series of words in succession

Allusion: a reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event that a writer makes to deepen the reader's understanding of their work

Antagonist: a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary

Anthisesis: a contrast between two things

Aside: on or to one side

Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together in a sentence or verse

Characterization: the act of creating and describing characters in literature

Conflict: a struggle or clash between opposing forces/ideas

Dialogue: a conversation between two or more people

Diction: the choice and use of words in writing or speech

Dramatic Irony: when the audience knows more than the character

Euphemism: substitution of a mild or pleasant expression for one that is too strong or unpleasant

Exposition: introduction or beginning of a story that reveals important background information

Figurative Language: words or phrases that are meaningful but not literally true

Flashback: a transition in a story to an earlier time, that interrupts the normal chronological order of events

Foreshadowing: alludes to a later point in the story

Genre: a category that authors use to describe the primary content and tone of their writing

Hyperbole: obvious and intentional exaggeration

Imagery: uses vivid description that appeals to a readers' senses to create an image or idea in their head

Juxtaposition: act of placing two elements, characters, settings, ideas, words, or things side by side, or close together, to allow for comparison and/or contrast

Metaphor: Used to make a comparison without “like” or “as”

Mood: an emotional state of mind or feeling

Motif: an image, sound, word, or symbol that comes back again and again

Onamotapeia: naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds

Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

Personification: representation of a thing or idea as a person or by the human form

Plot: cause‐and‐effect sequence of main events in a story

Point of View: refers to who is telling a story, or who is narrating it

Protagonist: character who drives the action--the character whose fate matters most

Repetition: using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech

Resolution: he conclusion of the story by the resolving of conflicts between characters

Rhyme: a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words

Rhyme Scheme: a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza

Setting: the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs

Simile: a comparison between two things, usually using the words “like” and “as”

Situational Irony: irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected

soliloquy: the act of talking to oneself

Speaker: the author's persona or perspective

Stereotype: clichéd or predictable characters or situations

Suspense: audience's excited anticipation about the plot or conflict

Symbol/Symbolism: (figure of speech in which) an object, a person, a situation, or an action that is used to represent something.

Theme: the main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work

Tone: reveals the narrator's attitude as conveyed by their specific word choice

Verbal Irony: a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent

Review:

• Great Gatsby - https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gatsby/summary

• Hemingway Short Stories

  • A Day’s Wait - https://www.litcharts.com/lit/a-day-s-wait

  • Soldiers Home - https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/inourtime/section27/

  • The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber - https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-short-happy-life-of-francis-macomber/summary

  • The Pedestrian - https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-pedestrian/summary

  • Old Man and the Sea - https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oldman/summary/

• Fahrenheit 451 - https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/451/summary/