Vocab

Am I missing any other vocab that would help me understand books or poems better?

– Allegory: A short moral story.
– Narrative: Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story.
– Character: An imaginary person represented in a work of fiction.
– Alliteration: Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word.
– Repetition: The continued use of the same word or word pattern.
– Apostrophe: An address to an absent or imaginary person.
– Ballad: A narrative poem of popular origin.
– Stanza: A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
– Dialogue: The lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction.
– Rhyme: Correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines.
– Rhythm: Alternation of stressed and unstressed elements in speech.
– Theme: A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work.
– Symmetry: Balance among the parts of something.
– Climax: The decisive moment in a novel or play.
– Denouement: The resolution of the main complication of a literary work.
– Plot: The story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.
– Diction: The way something is expressed in words.
– Elegy: A mournful poem; a lament for the dead.
– Epic: A long narrative poem telling of a hero’s deeds.
– Setting: The context and environment in which something is situated.
– Epithet: Descriptive word or phrase.
– Figurative: Not literal.
– Hyperbole: Extravagant exaggeration.
– Exaggeration: The act of making something more noticeable than usual.
– Irony: Incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs.
– Literal: Limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text.
– Lyric: Of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion.
– Metaphor: A figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity.
– Simile: A figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things.
– Oxymoron: Conjoined contradictory terms.
– Paradox: A statement that contradicts itself.
– Pastoral: A literary work idealizing rural life.
– Pathos: A quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow.
– Rhetoric: Using language effectively to please or persuade.
– Satire: Witty language used to convey insults or scorn.
– Soliloquy: A dramatic speech giving the illusion of unspoken reflection.
– Symbol: Something visible that represents something invisible.
– Vignette: A brief literary description.
– Motif: recurring theme, idea, or symbol
– Allusion: brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance, which the author assumes the reader still recognize.
– Connotation: extra meaning or feeling associated with a word beyond its literal definition.
– Onomatopoeiac: use of words that imitate or resemblance the sound they describe.

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