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| A narrative that serves as and extended metaphor. An allegory tells a story that has characters,Settings,and symbols, that have both literal and figurative meaning. |
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| The repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of successive phrases,clauses or lines. |
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| The adversary of the protagonist or hero. |
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| Placing contrasting ideas in juxtaposition to create balance or to compare and contrast. EX:give me liberty or give me death! |
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| An Overused phrase,idea, or saying which has lost some of it's original ideas or meaning. |
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| is an implied meaning if a word. it can be positive,negative, or neutral. |
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| The Definition of a word. |
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| Marks or a series of marks that usually indicates an intentional omission or incomplete thought. it leaves the reader to infer. |
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| A sudden Understanding or insight, especially through an ordinary, but striking occurrence. An "A-ha" moment. |
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| The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in use of "pass away" Instead of "Die". |
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| A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character. |
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| A group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from it's original literature. |
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| Specialized language concerned with a particular subject,culture, or profession. |
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| In literature, it's when one theme,idea,action,setting,word,or character is parallel to another and used for comparison or contrast. |
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| Recurring Subject,theme,image,or idea. |
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| An opponent,rival, or "Thing" whom is stopping another from achieving its goal. |
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| A lyric or poem of some length. |
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| Words that imitate sounds related to the subject or action they refer to. |
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| Figure of speech which contradictory terms are combined to make a point. |
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| Simple story that illustrates and moral or religious lesson. |
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| Contradictions that oddly makes sense (oxymoron) |
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| The leading Character of drama, novel, ect. Not always the hero, but is always the principle and central character whose rival is the antagonist. |
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| The humorous use of a word or phrase or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning, a play on words. |
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| an utterance or speech by a person who is talking to himself/herself, disregarding or oblivious to any hearers present. |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole for a part, the specific for the general, or the general for the specific. |
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