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| A long narrative poem, usually with a rhyme scheme, common in songs. |
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| The repeating of a specific vowel sound or group of vowel sounds throughout a poem, but not the consonants following them. |
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| A poem written with no rhymes in iambic pentameter (5 iambic feet per line). Found in Shakespeare. |
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| The repeating of specific consonant sounds after different vowel sounds. |
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| When a piece of literature is written in opinion, bias towards a certain side. |
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| Arranging things in the occurrence of time. |
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| Literature written in common language, like speaking, including slang. Not formal or literary. |
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| When a writer compares and contrasts two things in a story. |
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| Also known as the prologue. |
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| A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character. |
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| Poetry that does not rhyme or have a particular meter. |
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| A literary technique, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. |
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| Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. |
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| A narrator who is limited to 1 character. |
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| The atmosphere that pervades a literary work with the intention of evoking a certain emotion or feeling from the audience. |
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| The writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue. The narrator never discloses anything about what the characters think or feel, remaining a detached observer. |
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| The narrator is all-knowing and can jump anywhere he/she likes in the story (characters, places, etc.) |
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| Figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. |
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| A statement that appears to contradict itself, but seems logical. (Death shall die!) |
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| A piece of writing meaning to persuade the audience into the author's beliefs/arguments. (e.x persuasive essays) |
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| The spread of an idea or movement with the aim to influence feelings, emotions or acts. |
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| A literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect. |
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| A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem or song--these lines repeat at regular intervals in other stanzas. (song chorus) |
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| The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.(a/b/a/b) |
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| Someone who undergoes an important, internal change because of the action in the plot. |
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| Two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. |
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| Characters who are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader. |
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| The use of different elements such as irony, sarcasm, humor, and ridicule to criticize or mock the foolish behavior of others. |
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| Characters who do not change. The personality of that character when he is introduced is the same personality when the story comes to a close. |
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| A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation. (Dumb jock, uncool nerd, etc.) |
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| The protagonist must make a moral decision that in turn influences the outcome of the drama. Usually has a tragic flaw that leads to his/her downfall. |
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| A flaw that leads to the hero's downfall (pride, greed, lust, etc.) |
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| A noble character who contributes to his/her own demise. |
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