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| A Line of Poetry in which the meter and the meaning conclude with the end of the line |
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| A long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
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| A brief, clever, and unusually memorable statement |
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| In a literary work, a moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences |
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| An inscription on a tombstone or a commemorable poem written about a person who has just died |
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| An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing |
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| A short peice of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited point of view |
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| A short peice of nonfiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited point of view |
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| A very brief story in prose or verse that teaches a moral, or a practical lesson about life |
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| the action after the turning point |
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| A type of comedy in which ridiculous and often sterotyped characters are involved in farfetched, silly situations |
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| language that intentionally departs from the normal construction or meaning of words in order to create a certain effect or to make an analogy between two seemingly disimilar things |
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| a scene in a movie, play, short story. novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to "flash backward" and tell what happened at an earlier time |
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| A character who sets off another character by strong contrast |
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| the use of clues t hint at what is going to happen later in the plot |
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| an intro narrative within which one or more of the characters proceed to tell a story |
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| poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme |
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| a term used to descirbe literary works that contain primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural elements |
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| a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect |
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