Literary Terms Review

1) A writer/speaker/character's personality; a character trait that describes them as a person

• Theme

• Voice

• Tone

• Mood

2) Central/general message about life

• Tone
• Mood
• Theme
• Voice

3) How a writer/speaker/character feels toward something/someone

• Mood
• Tone
• Voice
• Theme

4) How the reader feels; the atmosphere created for the reader

• Theme
• Voice
• Mood
• Tone

5) Something that stands for or represents something else

• Symbol
• Flashback
• Allusion
• Syntax

6) When the author interrupts the present events with a look at the past.

• Allusion
• Imagery
• Flashback
• Symbol

7) Hints towards the future

• Foreshadowing
• Syntax
• Imagery
• Allusion

8) When someone says one thing but means the opposite; sarcasm

• Dramatic Irony
• Situational Irony
• Verbal Irony

9) When the audience knows something that a character(s) do not know.

• Dramatic Irony
• Situational Irony
• Verbal Irony

10) Something happens that goes against the audience or the character's expectations; when things end up differently than expected

• Dramatic Irony
• Situational Irony
• Verbal Irony