Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Archetypes=Type
Hero/Heroine
Dramatic Conventions
Stage Directions
•A single person
speaking, with or
without an audience
Aside
• A character speaks in
such a way that some of
the characters on stage do
not hear what is said
(while others do)
Verbal Irony
• A grotesque or foolish
image of a character,
achieved through the
exaggeration of
personality traits
Foil
• A minor character introduced in
order to represent the abilities of a
more significant character
(Ex.Millhouse serves as a foil to
Bart Simpson.)
Tragedy
•Traces the career and
downfall of an
individual
Voice
•Figurative Language-
an exaggeration
•Literal Language-
literally true
Imagery
• All of the words which
refer to the objects or
qualities which appeal to
the senses and feelings
Apostrophe
• A rhetorical (not requiring a
response) term for a speech
addresses to someone or
something in the beginning of a
poem or essay
Clue: When your parents ask, “Who do you
think you are?” You are not supposed to respond.
Metonymy
• The substitution of the name of
a thing by the name of an
attribute of it,
(Ex.the “crown” =monarchy)
Synecdoche
• A part is used to describe the
whole.
• Denotation-literal meaning
Ex. Kitten=young cat
Pun
•The use of a word in a
way that plays on its
different meanings.
Ex. “The hungry gorilla went ape.”
Irony
•Contrast between
appearance and
actuality
Stream of Consciousness
• Present the flow of a
character’s seemingly
unconnected thoughts,
responses, and sensations.
English 11 Literary Terms
Literary Forms
Gothic
Grotesque characters,
bizarre situations, and
violent events
Historical Fiction
•Fiction that is loosely
based on some
historical period
Proverb
• Short popular saying
embodying a general
truth
Ex. “Look before you
leap”
Aphorism
• A generally accepted
principle or truth
expressed in a short, witty
manner
Ex. “A rolling stone gathers no
moss.”
Epigram
• Originally an inscription on a
monument…now used to
describe a witty saying or poem
with a sharp, satiric, or amusing
ending
Ex: “In God We Trust”
Tall Tale
• Humorous story
characterized by
exaggeration
• Ex: Jack and the
Beanstalk
English 11 Literary Terms
Poetry
Rhyme
Similarity of sound
between two words
Meter
• The repetition of a regular
rhythmic unit in a line of
poetry.
Foot
•One stressed syllable
indicated by a `
•Two stressed syllables
indicated by a
Iamb
•An unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed
syllable
Pentameter
•Five feet
Stress
•The accent is on a
specific part of the
word
Masculine Rhyme
•The accent is on a
specific part of the
word, and stressed in a
deep voice.
Blank Verse
•A poem written in
blank verse consists of
unrhymed lines of
iambic pentameter.
Free Verse
•Poetry that does not
have regular patterns
of rhyme and meter
Scansion
• The process of determining
meter; when you scan a line
of poetry, you mark its
stressed and unstressed
syllables to identify the
rhythm
Inversion
•Departure from normal
word order, common
in poetry
Alliteration
A sequence of repeated
consonantal sounds in a
stretch of language
Example: Some late visitor
entreating entrance at my chamber
door.” (from “The Raven” by
Edgar Allen Poe)
Allusion
• A passing reference in a work
of literature to something
outside itself.
Example: “Speak to my gossip
VENUS one fair word.”
Assonance
• The correspondence, or near-
correspondence, in two words of the
stressed vowel, and sometimes those
which follow, but not of the consonants
(unlike rhyme).
Example: Can and fat food and droop
Child and silence nation and traitor
Ballad
A poem or song which
tells a story in simple,
colloquial language.
Example: “O What is That Sound” by W. H.
Auden
Feminine Rhyme
• A rhyme in which two differing sounds in
two words are followed by stressed
rhyming syllables and unstressed rhyming
syllables
• Example: revival, survival, arrival
End Rhyme
Example:
Refrain
Repeating a Stanza
Example: “Nevermore” from “The
Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Repetition