Literary Terms

4. use of words whose sound suggests their meaning.
7. two-syllable foot with an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.
10. line containing five feet.
11. point of view/The vantage point of a story in which the narrator can know, see, and report whatever he or she chooses.
12. special language of a profession or group.
13. omission of a word or several words necessary for a complete construction that is still understandable.
14. line containing six feet.
18. meaning a literary work may communicate, especially two meanings that are incompatible.
20. techniques/The devices used in effective or persuasive language.
21. speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
22. exaggeration, overstatement.
23. repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
25. statement that seems to be self-contradicting but, in fact, is true.
26. Explicitly instructive.

1. form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them.
2. figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness.
3. by distortion or incongruities.
5. Sentence/A sentence grammatically complete only at the end.
6. pithy saying, often using contrast.
8. that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule.
9. a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.
15. which goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.
16. metrical foot of three syllables, an accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables.
17. language/Writing that uses figures of speech.
19. story in which people, things, and events have another symbolic meaning.
24. technique/The methods involved in telling a story; the procedures used by a writer of stories or accounts.