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The use of the same letter or sound two or more times in a sentence.
Big bad bowling balls
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A reference, either directly or indirectly to a person, place or event (real or fictional)
“I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”
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| A character who opposes the known hero or main character. |
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| Something said that is supposedly not heard by others on the stage and only intended for the audience. |
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| The prevailing tone or mood of a written work. |
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| The people reached by a book, radio or television broadcast, etc. |
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| A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. |
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| Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group, usually in a way considered to be unfair. |
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Unrhymed verse, especially the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse. |
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The features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing. |
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| The arrangement of things following one after another in time. |
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A stereotypical or overused expression.
At the speed of light |
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| An intense moment or major turning point in a plot. |
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Used in ordinary conversation; not formal or literary.
She was recently dumped by her fiance. |
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| A movie, play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh. |
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| Taking note of the similarity or dissimilarity between two or more things. |
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| A psychological conflict within the central character. |
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| A struggle occurring outside the mind of a character. |
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An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Slender (positive)
Corpse-like (negative) |
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| The state of being strikingly different from something else. |
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| The literal meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests. |
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| A spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event. |
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| Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
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When an author tells the reader about qualities of a character.
John Clements was athletic and popular. |
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A piece of literature intended for performance.
Romeo and Juliet |
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| A character is the representation of a person in a narrative or dramatic work of art (such as a novel, play, or film). |
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| A description and explanation of an idea or theory. |
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- A segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion.
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Language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary or literal meaning of the words.
Metaphors, personification, etc. |
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| First person point of view |
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| Narration from the perspective of "I" or "We." |
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| A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story. |
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- A character who has only one outstanding trait or feature.
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| A character who contrasts the main character. |
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| Be a warning or indication of a future event. |
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| Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. |
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| A category of compositions characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. |
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Extreme exaggerations.
“I’ve told you a million times” |
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| Visually descriptive or figurative language. |
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When the author implies the qualities of a character.
She couldn't resist eating the chocolate bar. It was her fifth one that day, but she didn't care. |
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The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphasis.
Getting run over by an ambulance. |
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Expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
Internet jargon: btw (by the way), tbh (to be honest), lol (laugh out loud), etc. |
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| All-knowing narrator about one or two characters, but not all. |
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| Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas. |
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A figure of speech making an analogy between two or more things.
Broken heart - Your heart is not literally broken into pieces; you just feel hurt and sad. |
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| A state of mind or feeling. |
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| The action or process of narrating a story. |
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| A spoken or written account of connected events; a story. |
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| A person who delivers a commentary accompanying a movie, broadcast, piece of music, etc. |
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| Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. |
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| An authorial voice which reveals all of the characters' thoughts; may include commentary by the author. |
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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Bam, bang, clang, etc. |
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A figure of speech that combines normally-contradictory terms.
Jumbo shrimp |
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A seemingly self-contradictory statement that when explained may prove to be true.
Nobody goes to that restaurant because it is too crowded. |
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Human characteristics given to an inanimate object.
The book flew open. |
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| Convincing someone to do or believe something. |
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| The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence. |
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| The position from which something or someone is observed. |
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- Information spread for the purpose of promoting some cause.
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| The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. |
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| A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. |
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| Correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words. |
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| The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse. |
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| A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. |
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| A series of events that builds from the conflict. It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax. |
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- A character that has depth and emotion, who seems more realistic than a “flat” character.
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| The use of irony to mock or convey contempt. |
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| The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. |
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| The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. |
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- A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').
She was as big as an elephant. |
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A type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing.
Hey what's up? |
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- A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.
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| A person who delivers a speech or lecture. |
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| A group of lines forming a poem; a verse. |
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- A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as s/he was at the beginning.
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A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of a character.
Obviously Ms. Tong is good at math, she's Chinese. |
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| A manner of doing something. |
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| A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen. |
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| A thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. |
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| An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of literature. |
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| A modulation of the voice expressing a particular feeling or mood. |
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| A piece of literature dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, esp. one concerning the downfall of the main character. |
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| The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. |
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