Literary Terminology List for Pre/Post-Assessments

 

1.     Allusion

2.     Foreshadowing

3.     Elegy

4.     Setting

5.     Personification

6.     Ambiguity

7.     Antagonist

8.     Character

9.     Scene

10. Paradox

11. Denouement

12. Onomatopoeia

13. Catharsis

14. Rising action

15. Situational irony

16. Theme

17. Conflict

18. Soliloquy

19. Epic

20. Simile

21. Plot

22. Dramatic irony

23. Verbal irony

24. Act

25. Closet drama

26. Allegory

27. Metaphor

28. Symbol

29. Climax

30. Set

31. Protagonist

32. Speaker

33. Tragic flaw

34. Narrator

35. melodrama