Literary Terms

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Literary Terms

• Meghan Brents-Houston
• Curtis
• AP English 11, Period 5

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didactic

• Farenheit 451 is a didactic tale that warns
  against the notion of ignorance is bliss and the
  dehumanization of our society.
• Gandhi's didactic speeches taught and inspired
  Indias population to be more tolerant of one
  another.
• She was a didactic person and could teach anyone
  about anything.

• Defined simply as teaching, something that is
  didactic is intended to teach, especially dealing
  with ethnic or moral lessons

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euphemism

• Earthly remains vs. corpse
• Having to let someone go vs. having to fire
  someone
• full figured vs. fat

• A more pleasant way to convey a possibly
  unpleasant, offensive, or politically incorrect
  message.
• It disguises a harsh truth with a delicate veneer.

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extended metaphor

• Sometimes flowing lightly and gently/Moving along
  with ease/My life is like a river/Sometimes rough
  and rapid/Longing for some release/Trying to calm
  the storm/Waiting for the sun to shine
  overhead/Looking for the rainbow in the sky/My
  life is like a river (Extended Metaphor Poem)
• "Hope is the thing with feathersThat perches in
  the soul,And sings the tune--without the
  words,And never stops at all Emily Dickinson
  (Nordquist)
• "I graduated from the University of Life. All
  right? I received a degree from the School of
  Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue,
  baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody
  Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from
  Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching
  Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. Thats the kind
  of school I went to for real, okay? Will
  Ferrell (Nordquist)

• A drawn out and continuing metaphor that is found
  frequently throughout a work.
• In poetry, an extended metaphor will usually be
  based on one common metaphor with other related
  metaphors applied to it.

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figurative language

• Paradox a familiar strangeness (Hurston 48)
• Similie Her eyes shone like stars
• Personification the river wandered through the
  forest

• Speech or writing in which the words usually play
  off the imagination and are not meant to be taken
  literally.
• May include comparisons, imagery, irony, paradox,
  etc.

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figure of speech

• all the worlds a stage
• its raining cats and dogs
• there were butterflies in her stomach

• A way of saying something in a manner not to be
  taken literally using figurative lagnuage.

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Works Cited

• "Extended Metaphor Poem." English Adventures With
  Mrs. Schulze. Web. 30 Sept. 2011.
  lthttp//www.pschulze.com/kh2003/extended_metaphor
  _poem.htmgt.
• Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching
  God. New York Harper Perennial Modern Classics,
  2006. Print.
• Nordquist, Richard. "Extended Metaphor -
  Definition and Examples of Extended Metaphor -
  Glossary of Rhetorical Terms." Grammar and
  Composition - Homepage of About Grammar and
  Composition. Web. 30 Sept. 2011.
  lthttp//grammar.about.com/od/e/g/extmetterm.htmgt.