Literary Terms Flashcards

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Imagination

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The faculty or action of forming new ideas.

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Characterization

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How an author reveals a character's personality, traits, and motivations to the reader.

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Imagery

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How a writer appeals to your senses to help you to enter their work.

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Farce

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A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.

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Satire

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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices.

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Aestheticism

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The literary movement Oscar Wilde was part of where beauty > function.

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Intuition

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A feeling or instinct.

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Idealism

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The idea that the world can be a better place and that humans are naturally good.

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Tone

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The author’s attitude toward their subject.

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Inspiration

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The process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.