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| a novel where exciting events predominate over characterization and sometimes theme |
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| a form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons in a narrative, either in prose or verse, are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself |
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| the recurrence of initial consonant sounds |
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| a causal and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event |
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| a rhetorical trope formed by repeating the last word of one phrase, clause or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next |
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| the comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult |
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| the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences |
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| reversal of the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast |
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| establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them often in parallel structure |
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| the direct address of a person or personified thing, either present or absent |
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| the use of similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a work designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter bytreating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms |
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| a pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry |
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| a term that is half-seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones |
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| a crossing parallelism where the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part only in reverse order |
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| a type f novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both ofter by a process of disillusionment |
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| an elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image |
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| repetition of a word or phrase after and intervening word or phrase |
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| a line that has a natural pause at the end |
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| the running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line |
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| the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences |
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| an adjective or adjective phrase appropriately qualifying a subject by naming a key or important characteristic of the subject |
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| the substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one |
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| a device that allows the writer to present events that happened before the time of the current narrations or the current events in the fiction |
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| the basic unit of meter consisting of a group of two or three syllables |
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| a narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in the novel |
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| verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter |
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| two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter |
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| the new emphasis in the renaissance on human culture, education and reason |
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| in medieval physiology, four liquids in the human body affecting behavior |
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| exaggeration used for emphasis |
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| speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or vituperates against |
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| a mode of expression, through words or events, conveying a reality different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation |
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| harsher, more pointed, perhaps intolerant satire typified by the writings o juvenal |
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| a crude course, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person |
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| a judgment about the value of a novel as literature |
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| a comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another dissimilar thing |
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| the term used to describe that represents a revolt agains the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry |
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| the rhythmic pattern that emerges when words are arranged in such a way that their stressed and unstressed syllables fall into a more or less regular sequence |
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| another form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche |
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| treating a frivolous or minor subject seriously, especially by using the machinery and devices of the epic |
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| an extended prose fiction narrative of 50,000 words or more |
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| a prose fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a novel (20,000 - 50,000 words) |
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| a novel focusing on and describing in detail the social customs and habits of a particular social group |
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| the use of words which in their pronunciation suggests their meaning |
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| a paradox reduced to two words, used for effect, to emphasize contrasts, incongruities, hypocrisy, or simple the complex nature or reality |
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| a satiric imitation of a work or of an author with the idea of ridiculing the author, his ideas or his work |
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| the person created by the author to tell a story |
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| the metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes |
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| used by italian renaissance poet petrarch and popular in renaissance english sonnets |
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| an episodic, often autobiographical novel about a rogue or picario wandering around and living off his wits |
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| a false name or alias used by a writer desiring not to use his other real name |
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| novels written for the mass market, intended to be a good read |
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| a novel faithful to a particular geographic region and its people |
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| the similarity between syllable sounds at the end of two or more lines |
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| words intended to belittle a person or idea and arouse contemptuous laughter |
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| a novel in which historical events and actual people are written about under the disguise of fiction |
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