Literary Terms Part 4-6

A kind o rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to emotion and imagination

the voice talking in a poem.

group of lines forming a unit in a poem.

the general mood or feeling established in a piece of literature

emotional atmosphere produced b an artistic work (how the reader feels)

attitude of the author toward a piece of literature (how the author feels)

the uncertainty or anxiety the reader feels about what will happen next in a story.

a reasonable conclusion made about something based on certain clues or facts.

an interruption of the sequence of a narrative to relate an action that happened at an earlier point in time.

the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest what action is to come.

talk or conversation between two or more characters.

a representation of the speech patterns of a particular region or social group.

a contrast between expectation and reality.

references to a work of literature or to an actual event, person, or place which the speaker expects the audience to recognize.

a group of words repeated at intervals in a poem, song, or speech.

a repetition of accented vowel sound and all sounds following them in words close together.

a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns.

words or phrases that describe something in a way that creates pictures, or images that appeal to the reader's senses.

something that stands for or represents something else.

all of the emotions and associations that a word or phrase arouses.

specific or literal meaning of a work or phrase (dictionary definition).

the repetition of a sound in a group of words.

when two opposite words are put together.

A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true.

the use of words whose sound in some degree imitates or suggest it's meaning.

a figure of speech in which something non-human is given human qualities

A figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration.

A play on words that have the some or similar sounds but different meanings.

an expression that is illogical and means something other than its literal statement.

an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another.

a comparison between tow unlike things, using a word such as like or as.