Literary Test Flashcards
(41 cards)
Statement or arguments used in a work that may have more than one meaning or interpretation.
Ambiguities
The repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
The method an author uses to create the appearance and personality of imaginary characters in a piece of fiction: often developed by describing a character’s physical appearance, by revealing a character’s nature through the character’s speech, thoughts,feelings, or actions, and by direct comments from the narrator.
Characterization
The struggle between opposing forces that brings about the action within a story or drama.
Conflict
Narration in which the point of view is that of the main character.
First person
The technique of stopping the chronological action in a story and shifting to an earlier period to introduce additional information.
Flash back
The vantage point in which the point of view is that of the main character.
Omniscient
Words whose sound imitates their suggested meaning.
Onomatopoeia
The time and place of the action of a literary work
Setting
A figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things using the word “like” or “as”
Simile
The literal or “dictionary” meaning of a word
Denotation
A brief narrative of an interesting, unusual or biographical event, often used to illustrate a point.
Anecdote
A word opposite in meaning to another word
Antonym
A conversation between two or more characters in a work that is used by writers to give insight into the character themselves.
Dialogue
A character who undergoes a change during the course of the story.
Dynamic character
A method of explaining something unfamiliar by using a comparison of similar, more familiar things; a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain respect on the basis of the know similarity between the things in other respects.
Analogy
A literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or ridicule
Parody
The technique of giving clues to coming events in a narrative.
Foreshadowing
A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to animals, inanimate objects, or ideas
Personification
The careful sequencing of events in a story generally built around a conflict. The stages include exposition,rising,action,climax, and denouement
Plot
An established class or category of artistic composition or literature
Genre
A figure of speech which uses a deliberate exaggeration
Hyperbole
The usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound, a play on words
Pun
A speech usually given alone o stage, in which a character speaks aloud his/her thoughts
Soliloquy
