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| A figure of speech in which a person not present (dead or absent) is spoken to as if present, or an abstract quality is addressed as if it had human qualities |
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| Jungian concept dealing with an individual's unconscious affecting of images; literary critics apply the term to the image, plot pattern, or character type |
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| A comment made for the benefit of the audience and presumed not to be heard by any characters on the stage |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds preceded by unlike consonants |
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| Prevailing tone or mood when that mood is established partly by setting or landscape, partly by emotional aura which the work establishes for the reader on the basis of his expectations and attitude |
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| A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of dawn, when he/she must part from his/her lover |
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| Setting or tradition and point of view from which an author presents his/her ideas |
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| Acceptable proportion among the various elements of a piece of writing |
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| Usually a narrative poem in quatrains in which the second and fourth lines rhyme. The first and third lines are typically four feet long, and the second and fourth lines are usually three feet long. |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter lines |
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| A rhetorical pause within a poetic line, usually in the middle |
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| Author's revealing personality of a character he / she has created through a character's words, actions, physical appearance, physical setting, and dialogue. Forms characters as either static or dynamic. |
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