Transcript Literary Terms!! - Vista Unified School District

By: Dani Ashmun
Period 5
Define:
•When an author uses a character or plot to represent
something else besides the literal. Usually it represents an
conceptual motif or truth about society or life.
Examples:
•Animal Farm and how the animals and events all represent a
member or event in the Russian revolution
•Avatar and how the forest of Pandora resembles the slow
destruction of the Amazon by humans.
•The Lord of the Flies and how society will break down to
savagery without civilization and laws.
Define:
•The repetition of letters at the beginning of many words
in a row, usually consonant sounds.
Example:
•The great giant governed the gods of goodwill.
•Sally like super soups from the store.
•Arnold and Abby gave apples to Amy for her bunny
named Angel.
Define:
•An intended or unintended reference to a work of literature,
mythology, song, historical event, or movie.
Example:
•“The final game was John’s waterloo.” Waterloo is a reference to
the final battle where Napoleon was finally defeated.
•“The girl’s love of sweets was her Achilles heel.” This is an
allusion the warrior of Greek mythology whose only weakness
was his heel.
•“The killer wore the mark of Cain as he stalked his brother.”
This refers to the Bible story of Cain and Able.
Define:
•When a word has more than one meaning and may imply
something other than the obvious.
Example:
•“Prostitutes Appeal to Pope.” The word appeal can have
multiple meanings that have completely different connotations.
•“We saw her duck.” Duck can mean an actual animal or to get
out of the way of something.
•“I’ll promise I’ll give you a ring tomorrow.” Ring could mean a
ring on the phone ring, as in an engagement ring.
Define:
•A comparison between two things that makes writing
more descriptive and can connect well-known things or
ideas to unfamiliar things or ideas.
Example:
•“I am as graceful as a refrigerator falling down stairs.”
•“MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken.”
•The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination.
But the combination is locked up in the safe."
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