Literary Terms

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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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