Literary Terms

a story written to be performed by actors

• mood

• drama

• myth

• ode

a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Archetypal

comparing two things

• analogy

• allusion

• plot

• diction

dictionary definition

• Denotation

• Connotation

writers word choice

• drama

• mood

• diction

• regionalism

A long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or of a hero

• Archetypal

• Satire

• Epic

• Imagery

Suquence of events

• Diction

• Denotation

• Imagery

• Plot

The tendency to confine ones writing to the presentation of the distinct culture of an area, including its speech, customs, and history.

• satire

• regionalism

• imagery

• diction

3 dimensional character that seems like a real person

• Flat Character

• Round Character

a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

• Alliteration

• Allegory

• Anaphora

• Allusion