Literary Terms (2) 2020

characters who undergo changes as the plot unfolds

• Dynamic

• Static

an indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place, or event

• Allusion

• Foreshadowing

• Verbal Irony

traits of a character are directly spoken in a story

• Allusion

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

a comparison that does NOT use like or as

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

where the reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

the reader wants to know what will happen next

• Foreshadowing

• Situational Irony

• Suspense

giving human characteristics to something nonhuman

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Personification

the main idea in a work of literature

• Allusion

• Symbol

• Theme

characters who remain the same

• Dynamic

• Static

a person, a place, an activity, or an object that stands for something beyond itself

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Symbol