Literary Terms

allegory

• a short moral story

• use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• an address to an absent or imaginary person

• a narrative poem of popular origin

alliteration

• a short moral story

• use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• an address to an absent or imaginary person

• a narrative poem of popular origin

apostrophe

• a short moral story

• use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• an address to an absent or imaginary person

• a narrative poem of popular origin

ballad

• a short moral story

• use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word

• an address to an absent or imaginary person

• a narrative poem of popular origin

character

• • an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• • the resolution of the main complication of a literary work

• • the decisive moment in a novel or play

• • the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

climax

• • an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• • the resolution of the main complication of a literary work

• • the decisive moment in a novel or play

• • the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

denouement

• • an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• • the resolution of the main complication of a literary work

• • the decisive moment in a novel or play

• • the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

dialogue

• • an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• • the resolution of the main complication of a literary work

• • the decisive moment in a novel or play

• • the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction

correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines

• plot

• repetition

• rhetoric

• rhyme

• the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.

• plot

• repetition

• rhetoric

• rhyme