Literary Terms 10th Grade

The process by which a character’s personality is revealed. This can be direct (when the author tells about a character) or indirect (how they speak, act, think, look, and what others say or think of them)

• setting

• characterization

• character foil

• theme

character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. society, and character versus nature are all examples of what?

• situational irony

• mood

• conflict

• hyperbole

A speech given by a single character, usually to another character, in order to express his/her thoughts.

• dialogue

• monologue

• prologue

• hyperbole

When a character speaks their thoughts aloud when by themselves on stage (to share his thoughts with the audience)

• prologue

• dialogue

• monologue

• soliloquy

The underlying message in literature or film that presents a universal lesson or topic about humanity and life

• metaphor

• symbol

• theme

• exposition

hints or clues to suggest events that will occur later in a story

• foreshadowing

• alliteration

• extended metaphor

• simile

a contrast or difference between expectations and what is reality

• verbal irony

• irony

• metaphor

• simile

one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another, dissimilar thing

• metaphor

• simile

• irony

• hubris

words and phrases that re-create vivid sensory experiences for the reader

• imagery

• irony

• repetition

• extended metaphor

comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• simile

• extended metaphor

• metaphor

• repetition