Literary Terms

Frage	Antworten
Round	fully developed personality
Flat	little knowledge about them, usual demonstrate one dominate trait
Static	no change in personality or outlook on life
Dynamic	changes significantly in the course of the plot
Verbal Irony	say the opposite of what is meant
Situational	events turning out opposite than expected
Dramatic	some information is kept secret from some characters
Allusion	a reference in literature to a person, place, thing, history, art, music, mythology, the Bible.
Personification	human characteristics given to nonhumans - animals, things, etc.
Flashback	the plot stops to recall a previous event from the past and then continues in the present
Flash-forward	plot jumps to a future event and then goes back to the present and moves forward to that future event to show how it came about.
Narrative	poem that tells a story
Lyric	poem that expresses feelings and emotions
Simile	comparison using “like” or “as.”
Metaphor	comparison between two unlike things
Symbol	a thing that stands for itself as well as representing some larger meaning
Setting	place and time period of a piece of literature
Metonymy	part of or closely associated thing to represent the whole thing
Refrain	line or lines repeated throughout a poem
Paradox	something contradictory that is somehow true
Alliteration	repetition of beginning consonant sounds
Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration
Onomatopoeia	the use of words that supposedly mimic their meaning in their sound
Rhyme scheme	pattern of end rhyme in a poem; each new rhyme is assigned a new letter to determine the pattern of rhyme.

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