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Literary Terms Study Guide

As follows are the 50 terms that will appear on the Literary Terms Quiz. The quiz will be matching, with the term in one column and the definition in the other. I will break the quiz into two parts of 25 terms and matching definition each, so there will be two pages to this quiz. This will be graded at a weight of 30%.

1. Abstract 2. Allegory 3. Alliteration 4. Allusion 5. Anachorinism 6. Analogy 7. Antagonist 8. Apostrophe 9. Aside 10. Assonance 11. Bildungsroman 12. Carpe Diem 13. Catharsis 14. Characterization 15. Concrete 16. Connotation 17. Consonance 18. Denotation 19. Deus ex machina 20. Diction 21. Epiphany 22. Epistolary 23. Foil 24. Foreshadowing 25. Hyperbole 26. Imagery 27. Irony 28. Jargon 29. Juxtaposition 30. Litote 31. Metaphor 32. Meter 33. Metonymy 34. Mood 35. Motif 36. Narrator 37. Onomatopoeia 38. Oxymoron 39. Paradox 40. Personification 41. Protagonist 42. Rhyme 43. Rhyme Scheme 44. Rhythm 45. Satire 46. Simile 47. Soliloquy 48. Symbol 49. Syntax 50. Verisimilitude