Literary Terms Definitions Master List


Act—A major division of a play Scene



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Act—A major division of a play

  • Scene—A subdivision of an act in a play

  • Stage Directions—In a play, written instructions that explain how characters should look, speak, move, and behave

  • Aside—In a play, a short comment made by a character that is heard by the audience or another character, but not by the other characters onstage

  • Soliloquy—A long speech delivered by a character who is alone on stage

  • Monologue—A long speech delivered by a character while other characters are onstage, expressing the character’s thoughts and emotions

  • Dialogue—Conversation between/among characters in a play

  • Tragedy—A serious play in which a main character suffers a downfall

  • Comedy—A type of drama that deals with light and amusing subjects or with serious and profound subjects in a light, familiar, or satirical manner.

  • Comic Relief—A short, funny episode that interrupts an otherwise serious or tragic work of drama

  • Foil—A character who provides a strong contrast to another character

  • Pun—A humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word or on two different words with the same sound

  • Analogy—A comparison based on a similarity between things that are dissimilar.

  • Symbol—An object, person, place, or experience that represents something else; usually abstract in nature

  • Epic—A long narrative poem focusing on a great and serious subject as experienced through the actions of a heroic figure

  • Epic Simile—An extended comparison using “like” or “as” to compare two seemingly unlike things; also called a Homeric simile

  • Flashback—A literary device in which an earlier episode, conversation, or event is inserted into the chronological sequence of a narrative

  • Hero—The main character in a literary work; the character’s character or deeds inspire the admiration of the reader

  • Archetype—an original model after which similar things are patterned.

  • Legend—A story handed down from the past through the oral tradition and commonly believed to be based on historical events and an actual hero

  • Myth—A traditional story of an anonymous origin that deals with goddesses, gods, heroes, and supernatural beings and events

  • Oral Tradition—Literature that passes from one generation to the next by word of mouth

  • Anecdote—A brief account of an interesting or humorous incident

  • Autobiography—The account of a person’s life written by that person from the first person point of view

  • Biography—The account of a person’s life written by someone other than the subject

  • Connotation—The unspoken or unwritten meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition

  • Denotation—The literal or dictionary definition of a word

  • Dialect—A variation of a standard language spoken by a group of people, often within a particular geographical region

  • Fable—A short, usually simple tale that demonstrates a moral and sometimes uses animal characters

  • Moral—A practical lesson about right and wrong conduct; similar to theme

  • Parable—A simple story pointing to a moral or religious lesson

  • Parody—A literary or musical work that imitates the style of some other work in a satirical or humorous way







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