Literary Terms Review

touching readers' emotions

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• rhetoric

the words a character in a story speaks

• diction

• dialect

• dialogue

• personification

a popular figure of speech; almost always overused; a cliche

• simile

• metaphor

• personifcation

• idiom

point of view in which the narrator is all-knowing

• 1st person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person objective

actions taken have the effect exactly opposite of what was intended

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• symbolism

A character who serves as contrast to a character to emphasize qualities of the main character.

• antihero

• foil

• protagonist

• antagonist

a point of view that uses the "I" pronoun

• 3rd person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 1st person

credible sources; your credibility

• ethos

• pathos

• logos

• rhetoric

a comment made by a character directly to the audience

• interior monologue

• soliloquy

• aside

• dialogue

an insight about human life that's revealed in a literary work

• mood

• theme

• tone

• symbolism