MidTerm Literary Term Practice

A work in which characters and events are to be understood as representing other things symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral or political meaning.

• Analogy

• Internal conflict

• Allegory

• Foreshadowing

A reference to something outside of the work of literature; a brief reference to a person, place, or event, real or fictitious, to a work of art.

• Foreshadowing

• Figurative Language

• Mood

• Allusion

The comparison of two words that have the same relationship. Example: water: reservoir:: money: bank

• Analogy

• Setting

• Allusion

• Flashback

The author explicitly expresses character traits. Example: "The first man [George] was small and quick."

• Setting

• Flashback

• Indirect characterization

• Direct characterization

The opposition between or among characters or forces in a literary work that shapes or motivates the plot.

• Allegory

• Direct Characterization

• Exposition

• Conflict

A literary device in which an author uses subtle hints about plot developments over time.

• Climax

• Flashback

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

A method used by an author to develop a character through appearance, actions, thoughts, speech, or the reactions of other characters.

• Direct characterization

• Indirect characterization

• Imagery

• Tone

To describe something by comparing it to something else. Not literal. Example: simile, metaphor, analogy, etc.,

• Setting

• Tone

• Mood

• Figurative language

When the author creates a monologue to be spoken alone on stage in effort to communicate the character's feelings, thoughts, and motives.

• Irony

• Dialogue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

When an author has characters deliver a line to the audience or to another character while other characters are on stage.

• Indirect characterization

• personification

• soliloquy

• aside