Major Literary Terms for the CSET Multiple Subjects Exam

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each other in a line or lines of poetry.

CONVENTION – a device of style or subject matter so often used that it becomes a recognized means of expression. Ex. a lover observing the literary love conventions cannot eat or sleep and grows pale and lean.

COORDINATING CONJUNCTION – The seven coordinating conjunctions used as connecting words at the beginning of an independent clause are: and, but, for, or, nor, so, and yet. When the second independent clause in a sentence begins with a coordinating conjunction, a comma is needed before the coordinating conjunction.

COUPLET – a stanza of two lines, usually rhyming.

DENOTATION – the dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to connotation

DEPENDENT CLAUSE – Cannot stand alone as a sentence. For example, “because smoking can cause cancer.” (see INDEPENDENT CLAUSE)

DICTION – word choice

DIDACTIC – explicitly instructive

DIGRESSION – the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work

ELEGY – A lyric poem lamenting death.

EPIGRAM – a pithy saying, often using contrast

EUPHEMISM – a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness, such as deceased for dead or remains for corpse

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE – Writing that uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, and irony. Figurative language uses words to mean something other than there literal meaning. ex. “the black bat night has flown” is figurative (metaphor comparing night and a bat). “Night is over” says the same thing without figurative language.

GENRE – a literary form, such as essay, novel, or poem

GROTESQUE – characterized by distortions or incongruities. The fiction of Poe is often

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