Literary Terms

2. two contrasting ideas or things close together for effect.
4. central message or underlying idea in a literary work.
6. overall feeling or atmosphere that a literary work creates for the reader.
8. irony/When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
9. time and place where a story takes place.
12. extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor.
14. repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or phrase.
15. main character in a story, often the hero or central figure.
16. reference to a well-known person, place, event, or work of literature.

1. compares two unlike things using "like" or "as."
3. language that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell).
5. phrase that combines contradictory words (e.g., "jumbo shrimp," "bittersweet").
7. human qualities or actions to non-human things.
10. author's attitude toward the subject or audience.
11. word that imitates a sound (e.g., "buzz," "bang," "sizzle").
13. direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as."