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| reference to the past- interupts a story to go back and tell what has happened at an earlier time |
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| clues that hint at what is going to happen later |
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| an indirect reference; casual mention |
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| a story about extraordinary deeds based to some extent on fact |
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| character whose traits are in direct contrast to those of the principle character |
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| the category to which literary works belong |
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| a 14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pantameter |
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| Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet |
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octave = ABBA ABBA (contains problem/question)
volta (shift)
sestet = CDECDE/CDCCDC |
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| English/Shakespearian Sonnet |
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3 quatrains = ABAB,CDCD,EFEF (contain pictures, examples, etc
couplet = GG (contains theme, summary, etc) |
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| a shift, a transition word (italian sonnet) |
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| a group of 6 lines in an italian sonnet - contains solution/answer |
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| a 4 line stanza or poem, or a group of 4 lines unified by a rhyme scheme |
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| a pair of lines that rhymes - written in iambic pantameter |
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| the central idea or insight of a work of literature |
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| a person, place, thing, or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself |
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| the pattern of end rhymes in a poem |
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| the vantage point from which a writer tells a story |
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| the uncertainty or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself |
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| the main character in a work of fiction, drama, or narrative poetry |
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| the character of force that struggles against or clocks the protagonist |
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| a short, allegorical story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life |
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| the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or opposing ideas |
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| type of autobiography that usually focuses on a single time period or historical event |
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| a word character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or several works |
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| dated, not meant for publication |
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| author suggests something |
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| character that doesn't change |
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| dynamic/kinetic character |
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| character that changes dramatically |
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| the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject, or character |
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| the overall emotion created by a work of literature |
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| a story that teaches a lesson, an example story |
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| poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, or some other field of knowledge |
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| an account of a persons own life |
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| a protagonist that performs great deeds |
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| the character is alone on a stage, says a monologue |
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| private words that a character in a play speaks to another character or to the audience that are not supposed to be overheard by others onstage |
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| a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person,a deity, an abstract quality, etc as if it could respond |
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| a writers or speakers choice of words |
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| a story in which the characters, settings and events stand for abstract or moral concepts |
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the repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another
"sally sells seashells" |
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| A pleasing combination of sounds; sounds in agreement with tone. Also, the close repetition of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds. |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words close together |
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| a modern european movement in philosophy, religion, and art that asserts "existence precedes essence", that is that the universe and everything in it exists but has no meaning and that people supply meaning through their actions |
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| a movement of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences |
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| the running on of a thought from one line of verse to the next |
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| the audience know but the character doesn't |
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| the opposite of what actually happens is the opposite of that's expected |
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| speaker says one thing but means the opposite |
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| all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| a line of poetry made up of 5 iambs |
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