Literary Terms Review

author’s attitude about his or her work

• meter

• tone

• narration

• mood

the secret weakness of character that brings about a tragic hero's downfall

• idiom

• internal conflict

• oxymoron

• tragic flaw

repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words in a line

example: Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• allusion

• assonance

one person makes a long speech while other people are listening

• soliloquy

• monologue

• dialogue

• aside

when the outcome is the opposite of what is expected

• situational irony

• 1st person

• intrinsic

• dramatic irony

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices

• satire

• tragic flaw

• irony

• idiom

narrator not in the story that knows the thoughts of all of the characters

• 1st person

• 3rd omniscient

• 3rd objective

• 3rd limited

Beat of a poem or song

• tone

• iamb

• meter

• mood

How many lines are in a sonnet?

• 10

• 12

• 14

• 16

the last two lines of a sonnet are called

• quatrain

• couplet

• triplet

• iamb