Literary Terms Review
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- Q1a person, place, or thing that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itselfsymbolism30s
- Q2the dictionary definition of a worddenotation30s
- Q3an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its actual definitionconnotation30s
- Q4a discrepancy between expectation and realityirony30s
- Q5statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaningverbal irony30s
- Q6actions taken have an effect exactly opposite of what was intendedsituational irony30s
- Q7when the audience knows an unwitting character is making a mistakedramatic irony30s
- Q8giving animals or inanimate objects human qualities or characteristicspersonification30s
- Q9giving hints or clues to suggest future eventsforeshadow30s
- Q10a scene that interrupts the normal narrative timeline in order to provide information about something that happened earlier in the storyflashback30s
- Q11a ridiculous exaggerationhyperbole30s
- Q12a statement that appears self-contradictory, yet reveals a kind of truth, showing the complexities of lifeparadox30s
- Q13A work that ridicules the shortcomings of specific people or institutions as an attempt to bring about changeSatire30s
- Q14a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the original piece's styleParody30s
- Q15narrative technique that records a character's internal flow of thoughts memories, or ideasInterior Monologue30s