Literary Terms Definitions Pdf

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Instant Free Download · Update to Latest Version! · Reviewed and TrustedTypes: Games, Music & Audio, Social Networks, Communication, Tools & Utilities. CONCRETE TERMS: terms that represent, or try to evoke images or experiences of specific, tangible objects or entities that exist physically and can be experienced through the senses. Allegory An allegory is a work with two levels of meaning—a literal one and a symbolic one. In such a work, most of the characters, objects, settings, and events represent abstract qualities. Personification is often used in traditional allegories. Fiction: A literary work whose content is based on the imagination and not on fact. Glossary: An alphabetical listing of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translation; usually found at the end of a book. CONCRETE TERMS: terms that represent, or try to evoke images or experiences of specific, tangible objects or entities that exist physically and can be experienced through the senses. Glossary of Literary Terms When writing a literary analysis or a poetic explication, the student’s job is to ask how the writer says what he or she is saying and why. Examining the how and why is analysis and the process involves reading closely to see which ‘tools’ the writer has purposely employed to develop a specific effect or meaning. May 8, · AP ENGLISH LITERATURE: LITERARY TERMS ACTION: The bare events in a story. Action should not be confused with plot. Plot includes the meaning and purpose of the events. The action in Hamlet, for example, simply begins with the guards' visitation by the Ghost and ends with the carrying out of the dead Hamlet. A story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities, and can be read on two levels for both a literal and symbolic (allegorical) meaning. (i.e. See Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Haunted Palace).