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| The sequence of events or happenings in a literary work. |
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| A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem, usually at the end of each stanza. |
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| The return of a work, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature. ex. repeating sounds, rhymes and phrases. |
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| The time and place of action in a narrative. |
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| A comparison made between two dissimilar things, through the use of a specific word of comparison, such as: "like", "as", "than", or "resembles". |
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| Any object, person, place or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief or value. ex. rose=love; skull=death. |
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| The main idea or the basic meaning of a literary work. |
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| A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. |
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| The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and readers (anger, amuse, tender, shock). |
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| A reversal of the usual order of words to achieve some kind of emphasis. |
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| The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants. |
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| The repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words. |
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| A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem. |
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| Language that appeals to the senses; concrete; abstract. |
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| A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
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| A comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them by using the word "is". |
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| The use of a work whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning. |
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| The pattern of rhymes in a poem (indicated by a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme). |
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| A rhyme that occurs within a line |
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| A rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines. |
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| A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality, or described as if it were human. |
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