Literary Term Review (free verse to onomatopoeia)

a contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

• idiom
• limerick
• irony
• motif

descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader

• imagery
• hyperbole
• motif
• mood

poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

• myth
• free verse
• objective
• onomatopoeia

a story told in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama

• narrative
• idiom
• literal language 
• myth

chief female figure in a literary work

• hero
• heroine
• myth
• objective

lengthy speech addressed to other characters, not to the audience

• limerick
• inciting incident
• literal language
• monologue

form of light verse

• free verse
• motif
• idiom
• limerick

a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else (an implied comparison that does not use "like" or "as")

• simile
• genre
• metaphor
• myth

a legend that shows the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social happenings

• mood
• myth
• motif
• hyperbole

a kind of style, usually of art or literature, some examples are mystery, romance, or western

• mood
• literal language
• genre
• objective