7 th Grade Vocabulary Unit 5- Poetry Terms.  Allegory  A story in which the characters and events represent an underlying truth about life  Denouement.

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7 th Grade Vocabulary Unit 5- Poetry Terms

 Allegory  A story in which the characters and events represent an underlying truth about life  Denouement  Refers to the resolution of a story or plot  Motif  A recurring subject or theme in a work of literature  Pathos  The part of the story that makes the reader feel sorry for the characters

 Paradox  A statement that seems to go against common sense, yet it is true  Conflict  The problems and complications of a story  Exaggeration  Stretching the truth  Description  The use of words to draw a clear picture of a person, place, or thing

 Didactic  The didactic meaning of literature is its message or moral  Analogy  A comparison of two or more objects  Context  The context of a word or phrase refers to the words around it

 Empathy  An author’s ability to feel like a character in the story and to portray these feelings  Dramatic Monologue  A passage that reveals the character of the speaker by his comments to himself or to another character  Antithesis  An exact opposite. Used to contrast ideas in the same sentence  Parallelism  The use of related words or phrases in a pattern

 Poetry  The rhythmic construction of vivid and imaginative words written to please the ear  Symbol  A concrete object used to represent an idea  Antistrophe  The repetition of words at the end of sentences for effect  Anaphora  The repetition of words at the beginning of sentences for effect