English 11-Lit 1
Literary terminology
BELOW ARE SOME TERMS WE USE TO DESCRIBE ELEMENTS WE FIND IN LITERATURE.
YOU ARE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH MOST OF THEM ALREADY.
PLEASE LEARN 1) THE SPELLING OF EACH WORD, AND 2) THE DEFINITION OF EACH
WORD. WE WILL USE THESE WORDS IN OUR STUDY OF LITERATURE.
1. act
2. allegory
3. alliteration
4. allusion
5. analogy
6. analysis
7. anecdote
8. autobiography
9. biography
10. blank verse
11. caricature
12. character
a. protagonist
b. antagonist
c. flat
d. round
e. static
f. dynamic
13. cliché
English 11-Lit 2
Literary terminology
14. connotation
15. denotation
16. deus ex machina
17. dialect
18. dialogue
19. diction
a. archaic
b. colloquial
c. profane
d. formal
e. informal
20. drama
21. fiction
22. figure of speech
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. metonymy
d. personification
e. simile
23. flashback
24. free verse
25. genre
English 11-Lit 3
Literary terminology
26. generalization
27. idiom
28. imagery
29. inference
30. irony
a. verbal
b. dramatic
c. (of) situation
31. metonymy
32. motif
33. narrator
34. onomatopoeia
35. oxymoron
36. novel
37. paraphrasing
38. point of view
a. 1st person point of view
b. 2nd person point of view
c. 3rd person point of view
d. limited
e. omniscient
f. participant
English 11-Lit 4
Literary terminology
39. prose
40. poetry
41. quest
42. rhetorical question
43. rhyme
44. rhythm/meter
45. satire
46. scene
47. short story
48. sonnet
49. stanza
50. style
51. symbol
52. theme
53. tone