Literary+Terms

1. Symbolism- the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character. 2. Imagery- the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively 3. Irony- the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning 4. Satire- the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 5. Cadence- rhythmic flow of a sequence of sounds or words 6. Scansion- the metrical analysis of verse. 7. Flashback- a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work. 8. Foreshadowing- to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure.