Literary Terms

3. kinder way to give unpleasant information
5. source of the words of the story
10. repetition of words at start of successive clauses
13. sentence structure
14. accepted manner, model, or tradition
15. explains its own meaning or purpose
16. attitude literary work takes toward its subject/theme
18. word that sounds like what it describes
20. ordinary language, vernacular
23. direct comparison, usually using like or as
24. an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration
25. overstatement using exaggerated language
26. describing nature/life without idealization
30. the art of using words to persuade
31. a type of sentence that gives instructions, advice, or commands
34. narrative with multiple levels of meaning
35. contrast between what is stated and what is meant
37. tone, voice/mood of writing
38. central or dominant idea or focus of a work
39. style where conjunctions are omitted
41. literary work that that ridicules human feelings
42. repetition of two or more consonants
44. a grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated. Often used to comic effect
47. sermon, talk, lecture on moral or spiritual life
48. distinctive manner of expression
49. praise for a dead person, usually on a headstone

1. an assertion of something as fact
2. countering of anticipated arguments
4. seemingly contradictory statement
6. speech or prose in praise of a deceased person
7. that which has been accepted as authentic
8. ordinary form of written language, not poetry
9. question asked for stylistic effect, answer not expected
11. repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds
12. a long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end
17. appeal to text to credibility and character of writer
19. address to something inanimate
21. figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
22. specific word choice to persuade or convey tone
27. sequential repetition of similar initial sound
28. location of one thing adjacent to another
29. when a part is used to signify a whole
32. repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences
33. verbal irony in which "praise" is actually critical
36. element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow
40. containing instructive purpose or a lesson
42. prolonged comparison of two unlikely things
43. a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference
45. poetic lament upon death of a particular person
46. type or class of literature