Look up the following literary terms. In your binder, handwrite the definition and an example when appropriate (do at least twenty-two to thirty each night). Please note that usually assignments are required to be typed; however, because handwriting has been proven to help students remember better, for this assignment, I want you to write your work.
If you have trouble finding the definition of any term, skip it and move on. Points will be taken off for mistakes in MLA format. See the link on this website for MLA format, or google MLA format. See the post entitled "Literary Terms/Rhetorical Terms--Sample Entry" for an example of how to complete this activity. (Enter the search term in the Search box at the top left of this website.)
Look up the following terminology and provide examples for each. See the post entitled "Literary Terms/Rhetorical Terms--Sample Entry" for an example of how to complete this activity. Use the Search box on the upper left side of this website to find the example post.
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- amplification
- analogy
- anecdote
- anthropomorphism
- antithesis
- aphorism
- archetype
- assonance
- authorial intrusion
- bildungsroman
- cacophony
- caesura
- characterization
- chiasmus
- circumlocution
- conflict
- connotation
- consonance
- denotation
- deus ex Machina
- diction
- doppelganger
- ekphrastic
- epilogue
- epithet
- euphemism
- euphony
- flashback
- foil
- foreshadowing
- hubris
- hyperbole
- imagery
- internal rhyme
- inversion
- irony
- juxtaposition
- kennings
- litotes
- malapropism
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mood
- motif
- negative capability
- nemesis
- onomatopoeia
- oxymoron
- paradox
- pathetic fallacy
- personification
- plot
- point of view
- portmanteau
- prologue
- pun
- rhyme scheme
- satire
This list is just the beginning of the terms and ideas you will learn as you study the art of rhetoric and literary analysis in this course.
