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Literature Terms

Learn key literary terms like allegory, alliteration, and foreshadowing to elevate your writing. Understand concepts such as symbolism, dynamic characters, and irony for impactful storytelling.

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Literature Terms

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  1. Literature Terms

  2. Allegory • * A narrative that serves as an extended metaphor. Allegories are written in the form of fables, parables, poems, stories, and almost any other style of genre. (Ex. Animal Farm by George Orwell).

  3. Alliteration • * The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. • Ex: Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers

  4. Connotation • * An association that comes along with a certain word. Connotations relate not to a word’s actual meaning, but rather to the ideas or qualities that are implied by that word • Ex: Gold= greed, luxury, wealth • Dough/Paper= money

  5. Denotation • * The exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word may imply. • Ex: Gold= malleable, ductile, yellow element versus= wealth, jewels

  6. DynamicCharacter • * A character who changes throughout a story • Ex: Scrooge

  7. Flashback • * A narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events, in order to provide background for the current narration

  8. Foreshadowing • * To present an indication or suggestion of beforehand

  9. Hyperbole • * A figure of speech in which exaggeration is sued for emphasis or effect • Ex: I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

  10. Imagery • The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas

  11. Irony • * Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs • Ex: A police office getting a ticket on his/her day off or a fire station on fire

  12. Metaphor • * A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison • Ex: My mother is an angel

  13. Mood • * How the reader feels after or while reading a text

  14. Motif • A reoccurring subject or idea that helps to make up a larger theme

  15. Onomatopoeia • * The formation or use of words to imitate a sound • Ex: The ball went “shroosh” through the hoop

  16. Personification • * A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are given human qualities • My pillow dried my tears

  17. Satire • * A piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work. While satire can be funny, its aim is not to amuse, but to arouse contempt. • Ex: A Modest Proposal/ Swift

  18. Simile • * A comparison between two unlike things, using like or as • Her teeth were as white as pearls • He ran like a cheetah

  19. Static Character • * A character who does not change throughout a story

  20. Symbolism • * The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships

  21. Theme • * An implicit or recurrent idea, a motif • Ex: coming of age, racism, overcoming obstacles, love conquers all

  22. Tone • * Expresses the author’s attitude towards his or her subject

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