Literary Terms Review

Comparing two unlike things using the words like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Paradox

Using the same consonant sound to start two or more nearby words in a sentence

• Tone

• Internal Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Personification

Reference to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar

• A. Allusion

• B. Alliteration

• C. Symbolism

• D. Metaphor

Describing a character in a straightforward manner using descriptive words or phrases

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

• Plot

• Personification

A complete exaggeration to make a point

• Allusion

• Antagonist

• Situational Irony

• Hyperbole

Describing a character through that character's thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

• Indirect Characterization

• Verbal Irony

An item or thing that represents some larger idea of significance

• Symbolism

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Satire

The audience knows something that the characters do not know

• Satire

• Dramatic Irony

• Allusion

• Tone

The main character of a story

• Antagonist

• Symbolism

• Personification

• Protagonist

Giving human-like qualities to non-human objects or animals

• Symbolism

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Allusion