Welcome to the Video Glossary of Literary Terms, a project of the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong.

We are pleased to present our first set of animated videos, which introduce literary terms using concrete examples and fun animations. We hope that students and teachers who are learning about literature and literary analysis will find these helpful.

At below you see the terms with the literary works and writers we have developed so far. If you need help with these terms, go right ahead. However, we also hope that students and teachers who are reading one of the texts we use as an example might find the videos helpful. Below you will find a quick guide to the texts discussed in each video.

Naturally we would welcome feedback and suggestions as we continue to develop the Animated Dictionary.

Table of Contents

1. William Shakespeare, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun” (Sonnet 130) (Alliteration and Assonance)

2. Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House (Monologue (soliloquy) and dialogue))

3. Susan Glaspell, Trifles (Setting)

4. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Theme)

5. Jerome David Salinger, Cather in the Rye (Plot and Bildungsroman)

6. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (Character and Characterisation)

7. William Shakespeare, Hamlet (Metonymy and Synecdoche)

8. William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (Metre and Rhyme)

9. Charlotte Bronte, Nora Keita Jemisin, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare (Point of View)

10. (1) Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (2) Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (Personification and Zoomorphism)

11. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (Foreshadowing and Flashback)