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| a figure of speech occurring when the sound of a word echoes or suggests the meaning of the word: buzz, splat, drip, plop, boom, smack, etc. |
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| a figure of speech occurring when there is an epigrammatic combination of contradictory or incongruous terms, such as "the living dead," or "a mute cry," or "sweet tyrant" |
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| "dumbshow," drama entirely by gesture only, without words |
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| a short narrative from which a moral may be drawn |
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| a statement of situation that seems (but need not be) self-contradictory |
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| rewording, usually using one's own words of someone else's thoughts |
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| a literary composition that imitates the style of another work |
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| any writing having to do with bucolic/country scenes, activities, and people |
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| the quality in a work that evokes sympathy or sorrow or pity |
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| the character in a piece, especially drama; the voice or mask of the speaker of a piece |
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| the attribution of human characteristics and feelings to nonhuman organisms, inanimate objects, or abstract ideas |
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| an episodic traveling story following the exploits of a creative rogue who triumphs over less bright members of the society he passes through |
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| the sequence in which authors arrange/narrate/dramatize events in their stories |
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| the reward of the virtuous and the punishment of the evil-deserving |
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| a writer's privilege to depart from some expected standard |
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| versification as opposed to prose |
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| the angle or particular view of a narrator - first person (I) observer or participant point of view - second person (you) point of view - third person (s/he/it) limited or omniscient point of view |
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| a word related to a pun; a word coined by combining 2 words and which has 2 meaning packed into the 1 word -- i.e. "chortle" = chuckle and snort |
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| a preface or introduction, especially to drama |
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| the study of the principles of verse structure, including rhyme, sound effects, meter, stanzaic patters, etc. |
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| the hero who deals with a conflict in a piece of writing |
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| a common property aphorism whose author is unknown |
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| suggestive word play with homonyms |
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| a 4 lines stanza, rhymed or unrhymed |
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| detailed presentation of appearance, especially of familiar experiences and circumstances |
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| a line or lines repeated several times at set places in poetry |
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| from the French for "rebirth" - the 14th and 15th centuries in Italy and France, and the 16th century in England; periods of extraordinary creative output in all the arts |
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| clever banter; "gay remarks and unexpected answers;" witty verbal word play |
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