LITERARY TERMS

YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO KNOW ALL OF THESE TERMS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO THE LITERATURE THAT WE READ BY THE END OF THE YEAR. IMPRESS ME AND BEGIN LEARNING THEM TODAY!

1. alliteration

2. biography

3. characterization

4. connotation

5. denotation

6. dialogue

7. essay

8. fable

9. figurative language

10. flashback

11. foreshadowing

12. free verse

13. genre

14. hyperbole

15. imagery

16. irony

17. legend

18. limerick

19. metaphor

20. mood

21. moral

22. narrative

23. onomatopoeia

24. personification

25. plot

26. point of view

27. repetition

28. rhyme

29. rhyme scheme

30. rhythm

31. satire

32. science fiction

33. fantasy

34. setting

35. simile

36. stanza

37. suspense