Lit Terms A Go-Go

The light bulb goes off and you suddenly “get it.”

Epiphany

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The author’s attitude toward the subject was serious

Tone

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The phrase “his candle dancing in the draught of the ill-fitting window …” is an example of which type of figurative language?

Personification

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The implication of a word

Connotation

Lit Terms A Go-Go

A literary work that tells a story

Narrative

Lit Term A Go-Go

A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme.

Tragedy

Lit Term A Go-Go

Graduating from high school is bittersweet

Oxymoron

Lit Term A Go-GoSeize the Day

Carpe Diem

Lit Terms A Go-Go

She bought out the MAC counter just to have enough makeup for one day!

Hyperbole

Lit Terms A Go-Go

War is Peace

Paradox

Lit Terms A Go-Go

A death row pardon two minutes too late, and the audience is aware of it

Dramatic Irony

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The story took place in Salinas Valley, California

Setting

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Poetry with no restrictions

Free verse

Lit Terms A Go-Go

In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the boy speaks of himself as “body, perhaps less than that even: a

starved stomach.”

Metaphor

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The FTD flower company incorporates Hermes and his Winged heels in their logo.

Allusion

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled across the sea

Personification

Lit Terms A Go-Go

An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned

Archetype

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The literal meaning of a word

Denotation

Lit Terms A Go-Go

A son says to his father, “The world revolves around me because I’m the sun.”

Pun

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The smallest metrical unit

Foot

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Scary Movie, Vampires Suck, and Animal Farm

Satire

Lit Terms A Go-Go

“Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody

breast.”

Alliteration

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The bruise on her arm was purple at top, blue at center, and the size of a dime.

Imagery

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Talking to a dead person

Apostrophe

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Someone says to the most disgusting student in class, “Oh you’re God’s gift to women,

you are!”

Verbal Irony

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Doodle has lots of personality and descriptive qualities

Round Character

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The Sniper changes at the end of the story

Dynamic Character

Lit Terms A Go-Go

We had to make an inference that Madame Loisel was selfish due to her actions and

words

Indirect Characterization

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The girl told me, “She passed away last night” instead of “She was murdered.”

Euphemism

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Iago and Othello serve as a contrast

Foil

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Two rhyming lines identical in length and structure

Couplet

Lit Terms A Go-Go

When the perspective is all-knowing and the reader is aware of what all the characters are thinking

Omniscient

Lit Terms A Go-Go

An example from Othello would be “Appearances can be deceiving.”

Theme

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Words like pow, bang, and splash

Onompatopoeia

Lit Terms A Go-Go

The person the reader is rooting for in the story

Protagonist

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Two consecutive stories going on at the same time

Subplot

Lit Terms A Go-Go

A three-line poem with 5-7-5 syllables

Haiku

Lit Terms A Go-Go

A fourteen line poem

Sonnet

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Writing that uses I, me, and myself

First Person

Lit Terms A Go-Go

A heart represents love

Symbol

Lit Terms A Go-Go

Ms. Smith, my History tutor

Epithet