ENGLISH 10 LITERARY TERMS

  1. ALLITERATION
  2. ALLUSION
  3. ANALOGY
  4. ANTAGONIST
  5. ASIDE
  6. ASSONANCE
  7. BLANK VERSE
  8. CLIMAX
  9. COMEDY
  10. CONCLUSION
  11. CONFLICT
  12. CONSONANCE
  13. CONNOTATION
  14. COUPLET
  15. DENOTATION
  16. DENOUEMENT
  17. DIALOGUE
  18. DRAMATIC IRONY
  19. EXPOSITION
  20. EXTERNAL CONFLICT
  21. FICTION
  22. FOIL
  23. FORESHADOWING
  24. HYPERBOLE
  25. IAMBIC PENTAMETER
  26. IMAGE(RY)
  27. INTERNAL CONFLICT
  28. IRONY
  29. METAPHOR
  30. MONOLOGUE
  31. MOOD
  32. NARRATION
  33. NON-FICTION
  34. ONOMATOPOEIA
  35. PERSONIFICATION
  36. PLOT
  37. POINT OF VIEW
  38. PROLOGUE
  39. PROTAGONIST
  40. PUN
  41. QUATRAIN - a section of a poem made up of four lines
  42. RHYME the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
  43. RHYME SCHEME a regular pattern of rhyming word in a poem
  44. RHYTHM the pattern of beats, or stresses in a spoken or written language
  45. RISING ACTION
  46. SESTET the final six lines of a sonnet
  47. SETTING the time and place of the action
  48. SIMILE a figure of speech in which the words are compared using like or as
  49. SONNET a fourteen line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
  50. STANZA a division of a poem which contains two or more lines
  51. SYMBOL a place or thing that represents something else
  52. THEME the message an author is trying to convey
  53. TONE the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject
  54. TRAGEDY
  55. refrain (repetition)the action of repeating something that has already been said or written
  56. free verse poetry that doesn't have any boundaries such as,
  57. meter a poems rhythmical pattern, the measurement of syllables