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| a prose or poetic narrative where characters, behavior, and setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning |
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| the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants |
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| a reference in literature that pertains to a literary or historical event, person, or place |
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| a brief story or tale told by a character tin a piece of literature |
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| any force that is in opposition to the main character |
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| the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, or ideas. For example... Laugh, weep, rejoice, grieve, feast, fast. |
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| an address or invocation to something that is inanimate |
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| recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature. |
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| a pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns. |
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| ordinary language, the vernacular |
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| a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature. Similar to EXTENDED METAPHOR |
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| two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection |
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| the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people |
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| the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect |
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| a monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience. |
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| a poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation |
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| the continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next. |
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| a poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture. |
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| the part of the structure that sets the scene, introduced and identifies characters, and establishes a situation in the storyline. |
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| a detailed and complex metaphor that extends over a long section of a work. |
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| a play or scene in a play or book that is characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick and physical humor. |
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| to hint at or to present an indication of the future beforehand. |
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| poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non-rhyming lines |
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overstatement characterized by exaggerated language.
"I'm starving" |
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| specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group. |
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| the location of one thing as being adjacent or JUXTAPOSED with another. This placing of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer. "The gingham dog and the calico cat//Side by side on the table sat" |
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| one thing pictured as if it were something else. This suggests a likeness or analogy between them. |
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| a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something. For example, "The White House announced today..." The white house did not really say anything, thus metonymy is being used. |
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| a recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event. |
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| a lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure. Often patterns in sets of three, and used to praise a person, place, or thing. |
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| All seeing and knowing. In literature it is typically used to describe point of view. |
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| a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes. For example, "Bang! Smash! Boom!" |
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| a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement. |
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| a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy. |
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| a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true |
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| the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. Commonly used in suffixes to maintain sentence flow. |
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| a work (also called an ecologue, a bucolic, or an idyll) that describes the simple life of country folk. |
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| a sentence which is not grammatically complete until the very end. For example, "The child, who looked as if she were being chased by demons, ran." |
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| the voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual author. |
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| treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities. |
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| also called ITALIAN SONNET, a sonnet form that divides the poem into one octave and one sestet. Typically ABBA ABBA CDE CDE. |
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| the main character of a specific work of literature. |
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| the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail. |
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| a repeated line within a poem or song. For example "Glory, glory hallelujah" in the Battle Hymn of the Republic. |
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| a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure. |
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| the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play. |
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| also called an ENGLISH SONNET, a sonnet form that divides the poem into three quatrains, followed by a couplet. |
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| poetry that is shaped to look like an object. |
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| a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another, usually using the words LIKE or AS to draw the connection. |
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| a monologue in which the character in a play is alone and speaking only to themselves. |
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| a section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing. Couplet-2 Tercet-3 Quatrain-4 Cinquain-5 Sestet-6 Heptatich-7 Octave-8 |
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| one who appears in a number of stories or plays. (Wicked Stepmother) |
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| an expression through the author's writing by the use of diction, rhythm, imagery, figurative language, grammar, structure, sentence length, organization, and degree of formality. |
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| When a PART is used to signify a WHOLE. (lend me your EARS) |
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| the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. It's important because it influences the way a reader reads and understands a sentence. |
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| a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work. |
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| a verse form consisting of 19 lines divided into six stanzas. Five tercets and one quatrain. |
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