Examples for Literary Terms:

Examples:

circumlocution: The water looked as if it were made of glass as the sun shined down upon it.
classicism: Greek and Roman literature.
cliche: The grass isn't always greener on the other side.
climax: The climax of the last Harry Potter movie was the big fight scene.
colloquialism: What's up?
comedy: Anchorman.
conflict: Arguments and fight scenes within movies and pieces of literature.
connotation: You need to be pushy when you are trying to find a job.
contrast: Orange and blue are contrasting colors.
denotation: Pushy in the example for connotation doesn't actually mean to push someone or something.
denouement: Ending scene.
dialect: The African tribes each have their own dialect.
dialectics: plural version of the definition above.
dichotomy: Dead or Alive.
diction: The author's diction in Siddhartha can be quite confusing.
didactic: Themes are meant to teach the audience something within books, movies, etc.
dogmatic: Gale in the Hunger Games.
elegy: "walk the face of earth once more,
a mindless puppet, my strings are torn.
the creaky bones, the bad eyesight,
yet the chance to turn wrong to right.
wars-a-waging, old mans ......…."
epic: The Odyssey.
epigram: Don't worry when you could do something about it.
epitaph: Scripture on tombstones.
epithet: adjectives.
euphemism: Sadly, He passed away due to an illness.
evocative: Imagery!