Cheat Sheet Terms 23

Word Choice

• imagery

• attitude

• diction

• definition

A comparison using like or as

• simile

• diction

• irony

• archetype

language that appeals to the senses

• imagery

• symbolism

• analogy

• logos

Comparison that does not use "like or as"

• satire

• pathos

• hyperbole

• metaphor

Give human qualities to inanimate objects

• Archetype

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Concession

Exaggeration for effect

• hyperbole

• antithesis

• imagery

• symbolism

Outcome is opposite of expectations

• irony

• understatement

• antithesis

• thesis

a literary work that targets human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn--purpose is to critique behavior or cause change

• parody

• editorial

• short story

• satire

A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well; representative object

• archetype

• symbol

• rhetoric

• character

A text that operates on a literal and a symbolic level. Characters, setting and plot are symbolic.

• symbol

• allegory

• archetype

• analogy