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| Latin expression that means 'seize the day.' Carpe diem poems have a theme of living for today. |
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| Word choice, particularly as an element of style. Different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning. |
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| Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story. |
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| The use of images, especially in a pattern of related images, often figurative, to create a strong unified sensory impression. |
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| An atmosphere created by a writer's word choice and the details selected (and also syntax). |
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| A frequently recurrent character, incident, or concept in literature. |
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| A central idea of a work of fiction or nonfiction, revealed and developed in the course of a story or explored through argument. |
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| A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization of the sentence and global levels. |
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| An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text) with which the reader is expected to be familiar. |
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| Conscious exaggeration used to heighten effect. |
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| When a reader is aware of a reality that differs from a character's perception of reality. |
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| A comparison of two things, often unrelated. |
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| A rhetorical antithesis. Juxtaposing two contradictory terms, like "wise fool" or "deafening silence." |
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| A seemingly contradictory statement or situation which is actually true. This rhetorical device is often used for emphasis or simply to attract attention. |
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| Figurative language in which inanimate objects, animals, ideas or abstractions are endowed with human traits or human form. |
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| A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. |
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| A figurative comparison of two things, often dissimilar, using the connecting words: "like," "as," or "then." |
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| A thing, event, or person that represents or stands for some idea or event. |
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| Point of highest intensity in the story; the point that determines the outcome. |
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| The major problem(s) the character faces. |
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| Background information provided by a writer to enhance a reader's understanding of the context of a fictional or nonfictional story. |
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| Falling action (denouement) |
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| The events which follow the climax. |
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| A product of a writer's imagination, usually made up of characters, plot, setting, point of view, and theme. |
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| An extended piece of prose fiction. |
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| System of actions represented in a dramatic or narrative work. |
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| A series of complications that intensify the conflict. |
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| A central idea of a work of fiction or nonfiction, revealed and developed in the course of a story or explored through argument. |
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| A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization of the sentence and global levels. |
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| The character or force causing the problem; often but not always the "bad" guy. |
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| The method an author uses to develop characters in a work. |
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| A major character's moment of realization or awareness. |
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| A character whose traits are the opposite of another and who thus points up the strengths and weaknesses of the other character. |
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| Chief character in a dramatic or narrative work, usually trying to accomplish some objective or working toward some goal. |
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| The perspective from which a fictional or nonfictional story is told. |
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| A speech by a single character without another character's response. |
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| When a character in a play speaks his thoughts aloud - usually by him or himself. |
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| Representations of serious actions which turn out disastrously. |
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| A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of human behavior by portraying it in an extreme way. |
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| Has rhyming stanzas made up of two lines. |
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| An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about a heroic figure. |
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| A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, usually about some form of nature. |
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| Poetic meter consisting of five repetitions of an iam - an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable; used by poets because it most closely approximates the normal rhythms of English. |
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| 14 line poem usually in iambic pentameter and following a specified rhyme scheme. |
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| The repetition at close intervals of initial identical consonant sounds. Or, vowel sounds in successive words or syllables that repeat. |
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| Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity (i.e. "lake" and "fate") |
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| Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. |
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| Sentence structure which leaves out something in the second half. |
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| Sentence construction which places in close proximity two or more equal grammatical constructions. |
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| Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity. |
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| The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes. |
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| In grammar, the arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relationship. |
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