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| is the use dof more than once of any elements of language-sound, word, phrase, sentence, grammatical pattern, or rhythmatical pattern |
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| is the repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem |
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| is the use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is autually insulting it |
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| refers to the use of humorous devices like irony, understatement, and exaggeration to highlight a human folly or a societal problem |
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| is the time and place in which events in a short story, play, or narrative poem take place. |
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| refers to a change or movement in a piece resulting tfrom an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or reader |
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| is a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words like or as |
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| are stylistic techniques which convey meaning through sound |
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| is the framework or organization of a literary selection |
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| is the writer's characteristic manner of employing language |
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| is the quality of a short story, noverl, play, or narrative poems that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
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| is any object, person, or action that both has a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value |
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| mean the arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence |
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| is the central message of a literary work |
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| is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail |
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| is the opposite of hyperbole. it is a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than is really is |
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