Name: ____________________________________
Date: ______________
English 11
Ms. Raszka
Regents Review- Index Lit Cards due Friday, Quiz on Friday on Lit Terms.
Index Poem Cards due Tuesday, Quiz on Tuesday on Poem Terms.
Literary Devices for Literature/Prose:
Allusion: A brief reference to a current event, history, art, or music.
Character: Characters are imagined persons, created figures, who inhabit works of literature and dramas.
Static/Flat- Stereotypical of a single and exaggerated human characteristic
Dynamic/Round- Aspects are complex and convincing, and who change or develop in a course
of work.
Characterization: The method by which an author establishes character.
Direct: Through description and dialogue
Indirect: Through observations and reactions of other characters.
Conflict: Identifies the forces that give rise to any plot.
External: Focuses on conflict between characters and forces of nature or society.
Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society
Internal: Characters struggles to know or change themselves.
Man vs. Self
Flashback: A presentation of incidents or episodes that occurred prior to the beginning of the narrative itself.
Foreshadowing: A technique in which an author establishes details or mood that will become more significant as the plot
of the work progresses.
Genre: A type or form of literature.
Irony: A tone or figure of speech in which there is a discrepancy between what is expressed and what is meant or
expected.
Monologue: In a play, an extended expression or speech by a single speaker that is uninterrupted by response from other
characters. Addressed to persons or person, who may or may not actually hear it.
Point of View: Refers to how and by whom the story is being told. The perspective of the narrator and the narrator’s
relationship.
First Person: The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and
feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can’t tell us thoughts of other
characters.
Third-Person Objective - The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees
and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening, but he can’t tell us the thoughts of the
characters.
Third-Person Limited - The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the
characters.
Omniscient - The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one
of the characters.
Protagonist: Central Character
Antagonist: One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary.
Rhetorical Question: A question posed in the course of an argument to provoke thought.
Soliloquy: A form of monologue in which a character expresses thoughts and feelings aloud but does not address them to
anyone else or intend other characters to hear them.
Symbol: Anything that stands for something else.
Theme: an idea that is central in a work. It is more than ONE WORD
Tone: The attitude of the writer toward the subject and the reader.
Transition: A link between ideas or sections in a work.
Literary Devices/ Techniques for Poetry Terms:
Types of Poems:
Narrative Poem: Narrative poetry is a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and
characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.
Ballad/Lyric: is an ancient form of storytelling.
Blank Verse: Blank verse is a form based on unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
Free Verse: Free verse is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical
pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
Sonnet: A well-known poetic form. Two of the most famous examples are the sonnets of William Shakespeare and John
Donne. A traditional sonnet has fourteen lines in iambic pentameter and a regular rhyme scheme.
Figurative Language:
Alliteration: The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words.
Hyperbole: An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect. It is not used to mislead the reader, but to
emphasize a point.
Simile: A figure of speech which involves a direct comparison between two unlike things
usually with the words like or as. Example: The muscles on his brawny arms are strong as iron
bands.
Metaphor: A figure of speech which involves an implied comparison between two relatively
unlike things using a form of be. The comparison is not announced by like or as.
Personification: A figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an object, or an idea.
Imagery: Language that appeals to the senses. Descriptions of people or objects stated in terms of our
senses.
Rhyme:
Internal: rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the end of the same line or within
another line.
End: A poem or verse having a regular correspondence of sounds, especially at the ends of lines.
Poem Parts:
Speaker: The speaker is the voice behind the poem – the person we imagine to be speaking. It’s important to note that the
speaker is not the poet.
Stanza: One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of
meter, rhyme, and number of lines.