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Comprehensive Vocabulary Guide: Literary Terms and Concepts

This detailed vocabulary guide covers various literary terms and concepts from August 2012, designed to enhance understanding and analysis of texts. Each entry includes definitions of essential terms such as "metaphor," "antagonist," and "theme," as well as other literary devices like "imagery" and "dialogue." Readers will find valuable information on coherence, credibility, and the nuances in language, equipping them with the vocabulary necessary for deeper literary analysis and effective communication.

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Comprehensive Vocabulary Guide: Literary Terms and Concepts

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  1. August Vocabulary

  2. Monday, August 6, 2012 analyze: to separate into parts for close study; examine and explain. cite: to use the words of someone else; quote multimedia: the combination of sound, still pictures, and video argument: a reason in favor of or against something.

  3. Tuesday, August 7, 2012 • cohesion: to be connected by reason; be consistent. • collaborate: to cooperate or work with someone else, esp. on an artistic or intellectual project • credibility: the quality of being believable, or the power to cause others to believe. • delineate: to describe or portray in precise or vivid detail

  4. Wednesday, August 8, 2012 • salient:extremely noticeable or prominent • coherent:logically ordered or connected; consistent • nuances:a subtle quality or difference in tone, meaning, color, or the like; shade. • conventions:a practice or way of doing something that is accepted by most people

  5. Monday, August 13 • metaphor: a comparison of 2 things without using like or as, may say one thing and mean another • onomatopoeia: words that are spelled like the sounds they make • conflict: the internal or external problem in a story • oxymoron: an oxymoron is basically a phrase that has 2 words that would contradict each other, or just don't seem they should go together, such as "jumbo" and "shrimp.”

  6. Tuesday, August 14, 2012 • simile: comparing two uncommon things with the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ • alliteration: words in a sentence that begin with the same consonant sound • irony: a contradiction between what you think will happen and what actually happens. • protagonist: the leading character in a literary work

  7. Wednesday, August 15, 2012 • imagery: language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. • dialogue: a talk between two or more people or between characters in a play, film, or novel; quotation marks will be used. • narrator: a person or character who tells a story • climax: The top of Freytag’s Pyramid, the point at which a conflict reaches a crisis in a work of literature

  8. Monday, August 20, 2012 • point of view: The vantage point from which the story is told. • suspense: a feeling of growing tension or excitement. • mood: a feeling in a literary work. • characterization: the techniques a writer uses to create a character

  9. Tuesday, August 21, 2012 • antagonist: A character or force in conflict with the main character • setting: The time and place of the action in a story • -ology: a suffix that means "the science or study of." • paleontology: the science that studies animal and plant fossils for information about life in the past.

  10. Wednesday, August 22, 2012 • theme: The central message in a literary work • tone: It expresses the writer’s attitude toward his/her subject. • fossil: the remains or trace of a living animal or plant from a long time ago. Fossils are found embedded in earth or rock. • artifact: any object made by human beings

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