Literature Terms

Extreme exaggeration

• symbol

• hyperbole

• irony of situation

• rising action

Represents something other than itself

• flashback

• simile

• omniscient

• symbol

A character that does not change

• verbal irony

• omniscient

• static character

• dynamic character

When an event turns out differently than expected

• theme

• irony of situation

• indirect characterization

• resolution

When the narrator only knows what's in the mind of one or two characters

• first person point of view

• static character

• third person point of view

• limited point of view

Giving human characteristics to something non-human

• alliteration

• rising action

• personification

• setting

Sense of reality

• Personification

• Denouement

• Flashback

• Verisimilitude

It means "all-knowing."

• verbal irony

• verisimilitude

• limited point of view

• omniscient

When someone outside the story is telling the story

• third person point of view

• limited point of view

• first person point of view

• static character

When what is said is not what is meant

• Dramatic irony

• Verbal irony

• Narrator

• Flashback