Washington Irving Literary Terms

an artistic movement that embraced emotion, imagination, individuality, and saw nature as an idyllic setting

• Romanticism

• Dark Romanticism

• Neoclassicism

• Satire

a weakness, limitation, imperfection, or moral fault of a character

• character flaw

• characterization

• dramatic irony

• stereotype

The process of an author developing a character, or revealing more information about a character

• characterization

• dramatization

• symbolism

• imagery

an artistic movement that focuses on the negative side of humanity, and emotions such as anger, fear, or grief brought on by mental instabiltiy, loss, or the supernatural

• Dark Romanticism

• Neoclassicism

• Romanticism

• Satire

when the audience or reader knows soemthing that the characters don't know

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• unreliable arrator

• sarcasm

a story within a story

• frame story

• satire

• imagery

• theme

figurative language that appeals to the five senses

• imagery

• pseudonym

• simile

• metaphor

a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"

• simile

• metaphor

• moral

• framing

a comparison of unlike things NOT using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• motif

• moral

a lesson that the reader is meant to learn from a story

• moral

• metaphor

• motif

• theme