In this vocabulary log activity, you will explore literary terms which are very useful when engaged in academic discourse about literature or when writing about literature.
To add "Literary Terms" to your vocabulary log, complete the following steps:
Step 1: To download a "words in context" vocab. log entry, click here and then save it to your computer ( your "Z" at school or your desktop at home).
Step 2: Select five terms from any of the lists of literary terms below. Select terms which are new or unfamiliar to you.
Literary Terms Often Associated with Prose
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Abstract
Allegory
Allusion
Analogy
Antagonist
Anti-hero
Antithesis
Archetype
Argument
Avant-garde
Black comedy
Bon Mot
Chronicle
Colloquialism
Comic relief
Conceit
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Concrete
Conflict
Connotation
Criticism
Deduction
Denouement
Diction
Didactic
Doppelganger
Double Entendre
Dystopia
Epiphany
Epithet
Exposition
Fable
Farce
Fiction
Figurative Language
Figures of Speech
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First Person
Flashback
Foil
Folklore
Foreshadow
Genre
Idiom
Imagery
Irony
Jargon
Lost Generation
Melodrama
Memoir
Metaphor
Mood
Motif
Narrative
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Novella
Oxymoron
Parable
Parallelism
Pastoral
Point of View
Poetic Justice
Poetic License
Polemic
Prologue
Prose
Protagonist
Pseudonym
Pun
Resolution
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Question
Satire
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Stereotype
Sturm und Drang
Subjectivity
Symbolism
Theme
Third person
Tone
Transcendentalism
Understatement
Utopia
Verisimilitude
Verse
Zeitgeist
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Literary Terms Often Associated with Poetry
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Accent
Alliteration
Assonance
Ballad
Blank verse
Cadence
Caesura
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Carpe diem
Catharsis
Chorus
Concrete poetry
Consonance
Couplet
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Dissonance
Elegy
Epic
Epigram
Epitaph
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Free verse
Haiku
Hyperbole
Meter
Ode
Personification
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Refrain
Rhyme
Simile
Soliloquy
Stanza
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Curious about specific terms to describe the meter/rhythm of a poem? Click here and check out how to use these terms when writing about poetry with this link from UNC.
Literary Terms Often Associated with Drama
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Act
Aside
Character
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Dialog/dialogue
Drama
Dramatic irony
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Epilogue
Monologue
Scene
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Tragedy
Theater of the Absurd
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Step 4: Add these words to your vocab. log and then fill out the log as indicated in the example below.
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