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| Narrative including extraordinary people in exotic locations |
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| A sharp, caustic expression/remark |
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| Literary style used to poke fun at or attack/ridicule and idea |
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| Act of determining meter in a poetic line |
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| Synonym for feeling or view |
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| Describes characters' refined/tender emotion in literature |
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| The total environment for the action in a novel/play. |
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| Comparison using like or as |
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Form of verse consisting of
three, four line units
called quatrains and a concluding couplet
AB-AB-BC-BC-CD-CD-EF-EF-GG |
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| Group of two or more lines in a poem |
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| Style of writing where the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind |
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| Manner which the author uses and arranges words, ideas, forms sentences, creates structure. |
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| Collection of minor events in a novel |
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| Implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature |
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| Use of one object to evoke ideas not literally part of the original object |
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Where a part signifies the whole:
fifty masts for fifty ships
or the whole signifies the part:
days for life
or when the name of a material stands for the thing
pigskin |
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Organization of language into meaningful structure
OR simply
Pattern of words |
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| Character who's name appears in title of novel/play |
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| Author's attitude toward the subject written about |
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| Form of literature where the hero is destroyed by some character flaw or set of forces |
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Generic name for a figure of speech such as
simile, symbol, image, metaphor |
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