The French Literature Glossary
Antithesis : the exact opposite, or opposition.
Argumentative text : quick to disagree and argue in a text.
Climax scene : the most important or exciting part in the development of a story or situation, which usually happens near the end.
Comedy : a movie, play, or book that is intentionally amusing either in its characters or its action.
Definition : a statement that explains the meaning of a word or phrase
Figure of speech : An expression that uses words to mean something different from their ordinary meaning.
Footnote : A note at the bottom of a page that gives extra information about something in the text on that page.
Hyperbola : a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound much bigger, better, smaller, worse, more unusual, etc., than they are.
Metaphor : an expression that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to possess similar characteristics.
Opinion text : the ideas that a person or a group of people have about something or someone, which are based mainly on their feelings and beliefs, or a single idea of this type.
Poem : a piece of writing in which the words are carefully chosen for the images and ideas they suggest, and in which the sounds of the words when read aloud often follow a particular rhythmic pattern.
Quote : to repeat words that someone else has said or written.
Rhyme : two or more words with the same final sound, or the use of such words, esp. at the ends of lines in a poem or song.
Simile : An expression including the words "like" or "as" to compare one thing with another.
Synonym : a word or phrase that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase.
Theater : the art or activity of writing and performing plays, or the public performance of plays.
Thesis : A thesis is the main idea, opinion, or theory of a speaker or writer, who then attempts to prove it.
Tragedy : In the theater, a tragedy is a serious play that endswith the death or suffering of the main character.
Trigger : to cause something to start.
Understatement : a statement that describes something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is, or the act of making such statements.
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