Literary Terms
Vocabulary of argument:
- Purpose
- audience
- tone
- diction
- syntax
- persona
- appeals (logos, pathos, ethos)
- rhetorical devices (extended metaphor, parallelism, repetition, rhetorical question, contrast/opposition)
Elements of fiction/non-fiction:
- Diction
- Connotation/Denotation
- Tone
- Irony
- Allusion
- Rhetorical Devices (parallelism, repetition, rhetorical question, anecdote)
- Stream of consciousness
Elements of fiction:
- Plot (exposition, complication(s), climax, falling action, resolution/denouement)
- Setting
- Character (dynamic v. static characters, round v. flat characters, indirect v. direct characterization. Foil characters.)
- Point of view (first person, third person omniscient, third person limited)
- Theme
- Irony (dramatic, situational, verbal)
Elements of Poetry:
- Figurative language (simile, metaphor, symbol, personification, oxymoron, paradox, hyperbole, understatement)
- Imagery
- Sound devices (rhyme, repetition, refrain, alliteration, onomatopoeia)
- Rhyme scheme, Rhythm, Meter
- Stanza, couplet
- Narrative v. Lyric Poetry
- Free verse and blank verse
- End-stopped lines/enjambment
Elements of drama:
- Acts and scenes
- Stage directions
- Protagonist/antagonist, dramatic foil
- Aside
- Soliloquy
Elements of research/literary criticism:
- Parenthetical citation
- Works Cited
- Paraphrase
- Summarize
- Historical present tense