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| a prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often a universal symbol or personified abstraction, |
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| the sequential repetition of a similiar inital sound usually applied to consonants, usually head in closely proximate stressed syllables |
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| a referrence to a literary or historical even, person, or place. |
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| the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. |
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| a biref story told by a character in a piece of literature. |
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| any force that is in opposition to the main chracter, or protagonist |
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| the juxtaposition of sharply constrating ideas in balanced or parallel work, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas |
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| an address or invocation to something that is inanimate |
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| recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images that are identifiable range of literature |
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| a repetition of identical or similiar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllablesof close proximity |
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| a style in which conjunctions are omitted, usually producing a fast-paced, more rapid prose |
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| tone + mood caused by people, places, events, or even the theme. |
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| a depiction in which a character's characteristics or features are deliberately exaggerated as to render them absurd. |
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| a figure of speech in which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. This may involve a repetition of the same words. |
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| ordinary language, venacular |
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| a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a pice of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem |
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| what is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly describes, often referred to as the implied meaning of the word. |
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| the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels. |
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| a direct and specific meaning, often referred to as the dictionary meaning of a word |
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| the word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect. |
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| a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience |
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| the beginning of a story, which establishes the scene, introduces and identifies characters |
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| a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work also, a conceit |
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| a legend or short moral story often using animals as characters |
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| the part of plot structure in which the complications of the rising action are untangled also known as denouement |
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| a play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics and often slapstick physical humor |
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| to hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand |
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| overstatement characterized by exaggerated language |
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| broadly defined, any sensory detail or evocation in a work; more narrowly, the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object. |
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| "in the midst of things"; refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, necessitatinf filling in past details by exposition or flashback |
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| a situation or statement characterized signifcant difference between what is expected understood and opposite of what they normally mean. |
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