Literary Terms Flashcards
(21 cards)
Allusion
a reference to anything famous in a story
Free Verse
no regular pattern of rhyme
Blank Verse
no rhyme at all
Sonnet
14 line, iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme poem
Slant Rhyme
words that rhyme if you change the pronunciation
Theme
repeating idea in a book, usually a phrase
Symbol
word/object that stands for another word/object
Narrative
a collection of events that tells a story
Imagery
“mental pictures” that readers experience with a passage
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of rhyme
Quatrain
a stanza of four lines
Couplet
two lines of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme
Foreshadowing
hinting what will occur later in a narrative
Refrain
A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza that repeat in other stanzas
Epic
a long narrative poem
Protagonist
main character
Iambic Pentameter
a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable occurs 5 times
Personification
non human things are given human qualities
Meter
varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stres
Topic
a single subject, one word
Paradox
contradictory idea
