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Literary Terms English 12 Rosa Jin - 3C - Febr 10/11

Allegory: a story with an underlying meaning

Alliteration: a series of words with the same initial consonant

Allusion: a reference to a commonly known person/ place/ thing

Ambiguity: to have more than one meaning (word, phrase, story)

Analogy: a similarity between two otherwise different things

Anecdote: a short story on an interesting incident

Antagonist: the opposing character(s) in a story (opposite to protagonist)

Apostrophe: addressing a person or thing as if they were present

Aside: a dramatic device; the characer speaks to the audience

Assonance: a series of words all starting with the same vowel (like alliteration)

Atmosphere: the environement in a story

Ballad: a poem with a repeated refrain, often a song/ can be sung

Blank Verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter

Cacophony: the use of many harsh sounding consonants in a phrase

Characterization: graphic and vivid verbal description of a character and their traits

Chorus: the part of a song/ poem repeated after each stanza; refrain

Colloquial: everyday/ casual speech, not used in formal speech or writing

Conflict: a/ the problem (external and/or internal)

Connotation: a word or phrase with certain emotional metre