Literary Terms

Allegory: A narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. Characters may begiven names such as Hope, Pride,,Youth, and Charity.
Alliteration: The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a sequence of words.
Allusion: A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event,or idea in history or literature.
Anaphora: repetition of words at the beginning of the cluase
Anastrophe: repetition of words at the end of the clause
Assonance: vowel sound repetition for effect.Musicality
Archetype: Universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader..
Conflict: The struggle within the plot between opposing forces.
Connotation: Associationsand implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word.
Consonance: end consonant sound repeated.
Dialogue: The verbal exchanges between characters.
Double-bind: either or,
Foil: A characterin a work whose behavior and values contrast those of another character.
Foreshadowing: The introduction early in a story of hints that suggest what is to come later.
Hyperbole: A boldlyexaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true.
Image: A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses.
Irony: A literary device that uses contradictorystatements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
Metaphor: A device that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word “like” or “as.”
Oxymoron: Acondensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together.
Paradox: A statement that initially appears to be contradictory but is nonetheless true.
Persona: A speaker created bythe writer to tell a story or to speak in a poem.
Personification: A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things.
Pun: A play on words that relies on a word...