Language+Arts+Literary+Terms

**This wiki page is for students in Mr. Haywood's Language Arts classes. Each week, litererary terms will be posted and students are expected to have update their own literary terms notebooks by looking at this page. Students will be given particular dates in class and are expected to study these terms for their literary terms quizzes that are given EACH WEEK. The list will grow each week and students will have to define 20 terms, randomly selected by Mr. Haywood, from this list.** **Allegory:** Refers to a second meaning beneath the surface implications; usually an abstract idea or moral principle.
 * Welcome Language Arts Students!**

**Alliteration:** Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence. Is used for emphasis. **Allusion:** A reference, obvious or implicit, to something in previous literature or history that gives the text another significance.
 * Let us go forth to //lead// the //land// we //love//. J. F. Kennedy, Inaugural


 * Climax:** Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of ascending power. Often the last emphatic word in one phrase or clause is repeated as the first emphatic word of the next.


 * Conflict:** A collision of actions, ideas, desires, or goals in the plot of a story or drama.

Vaster than empires, and more slow; An hundred years should got to praise Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
 * Hyperbole:** Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect.
 * My vegetable love should grow

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. Shakespeare, Macbeth
 * Metaphor:** Implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it.
 * Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,