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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." |
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| A reference contained in a work |
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| A story or brief episode told by the writer or a character to illustrate a point. |
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| A single assertion or a series of assertions presented and defended by the writer. |
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| The relationship of an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience. |
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| Those who carry out the action of the plot in literature. Major, minor, static, and dynamic are the types. |
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| An overused saying or idea. |
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| An idea that cannot stand alone in a sentence even though it has a subject and verb. |
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| The author's choice of words that creats tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning. |
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| The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic diviosion of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. |
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| Deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. |
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| Expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence. |
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| A comparison of two unlike things, not using like or as. "Your eyes are stars" |
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| The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. (Poe with an eerie intensity) |
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| The purpose of this type of rhetorical mode is to tell the story or narrate an event or series of events. |
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| The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. |
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| A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum. |
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| Assigning human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. Wordsworth's "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon." |
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| Tells what the subject is or does. |
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| The literary genre that is written in ordinary language and most closely resembles everyday speech. |
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| The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as sound, word, phraase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern. |
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| Who or what the sentence is about. |
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| Anything that represents, stands for, something else. Usually concrete- such as an object, action, character, or scene- that represents something more abstract. |
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| The grammatical structure of prose and poetry. |
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| The sentence or group of sentences that directly expressed the author's opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition. |
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| Similar to mood, describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. |
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| Can refer to two different areas of writing. One refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active or passive). The second refers to the total "sound" of the writer's style. |
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