Literary Term Poster

Please choose from the following literary terms (a different one each), look up the definition in the back of Perrine's Anthology, in the handouts, and in A Glossary of Literary Terms. Then create a small poster for the term with: the name of the term, a clear definition, an example, and a symbol or illustration to explain the term. Complete one in class and one at home: two terms each.

Terms:

Should Know Already
(but may need to fine tune)

May know already, but do need to learn
1. irony
2. point of view/narrative perspective
3. figurative language
4. imagery
5. diction
6. tone, mood, attitutde, atmosphere
7. foil
8. monologue, dialogue, soliloquy
9. interior monologue
10. reversal
11. dialect/vernacular

1. allusion
2. allegory
3. stream of consciousness
4. rhetoric
5. hyperbole and understatement -
6. satire
7. hubris and hamartia
8. paradox
9. syntax
10. parallelism
11. connotation and denotation

12. loose, periodic, and inverted sentences
13. blank verse & free verse & heroic couplets
14. meter & iambic pentameter

15. cadence
16 . rhyme scheme & sonnet
17 . denounment/resoultion
18 . alliteration and assonance