A few literary terms – be sure to look up examples
Dramatic Irony – audience knows something the characters don’t
Verbal Irony – Meaning is different from what is said (sarcasm)
Situational Irony – Situation is not as it appears to be
Personification – Give human qualities to non-human things
Allusion – reference to another literary work, a historical event or person
Pun – play on words
Tragedy – play in which the main character suffers a major downfall
Prologue – Introduction to a play in which one character sums up & foreshadows future events
Prose – regular paragraph format with no rhyme or rhythm
Metaphor – comparison of 2 different things (saying it IS something)
Foreshadowing – hints or clues to future events in a story
Inference – Draw conclusions as to what has already happened
Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds
Alliteration – repetition of consonant sounds
Connotation – meanings we assign to words
Denotation – dictionary definitions
Dramatic Irony – audience knows something the characters don’t
Verbal Irony – Meaning is different from what is said (sarcasm)
Situational Irony – Situation is not as it appears to be
Personification – Give human qualities to non-human things
Allusion – reference to another literary work, a historical event or person
Pun – play on words
Tragedy – play in which the main character suffers a major downfall
Prologue – Introduction to a play in which one character sums up & foreshadows future events
Prose – regular paragraph format with no rhyme or rhythm
Metaphor – comparison of 2 different things (saying it IS something)
Foreshadowing – hints or clues to future events in a story
Inference – Draw conclusions as to what has already happened
Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds
Alliteration – repetition of consonant sounds
Connotation – meanings we assign to words
Denotation – dictionary definitions