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a symbol narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning
often, is a story in which the characters symbolize moral qualities |
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| repetition of consonant sounds, esp. at the beginning of words |
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| a character/force against which a character struggles |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line or poetry or prose |
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| a love lyric in which the speaker complains the arrival of dawn, at which time he must leave his lover |
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-narrative poem written in 4-line stanzas
-characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style |
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a line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter
e.g. robert frost's "birches" |
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| an imagined person in a literary work who can be major/minor, static/dynamic |
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| how the author presents/reveals his characters; through how they dress/speak, their manner and action |
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| turning point of the action in the plot of a literal work; highest point of tension; the point at which the main conflict is resolved |
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| intensification of conflict in a story/play; builds up and develops the main conflict in a literal work |
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| struggle between opposing forces in a story/play; usually resolved at the end; can be characters, within a character, man vs. environment and man vs. the supernatural |
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| the associations brought up by a word that go beyond its dictionary meaning |
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customary feature of a literal work; defining feature of a particular literay genre
e.g. moral within a fable |
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a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not be a separate stanza in a poem
e.g. Shakespeare's sonnets |
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-dictionary meaning of a word
-writers usually like to contrast the denotation of a word with its connotation, aka its suggested associational implication |
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| resolution of the plot in a literary work |
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| conversation between characters in a literary work |
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| a lyric poem lamenting the dead |
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| a long narrative poem recording the adventures of a hero; often chronicles the origin of a civilization and its central values |
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| a brief witty poem, often satirical |
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| first stage of a fictional/dramatic plot; background info is given to the audience before the action of the literary work so they can understand the development of the plot better |
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| action following the climax that brings the story to its resolution, or denouement |
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an imagined story
-characters are fictional but may be based on real life people
-author may fictionalize facts and deviate from real-life situations |
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a form of language used by the speaker/writer to convey something other than the literal meaning of their words
e.g. hyperbole/exaggeration, simile & metaphors, understatements, synecdoches |
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an interruption of the work's chronology to present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of the work's action
-used by writers to complicate the sense of chronology in their work and to show the richness of the experiences of human time |
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| a character who contrasts and parallels the main character |
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| a metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| a hint of what is to come in the action of a play/story |
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| a poem not following a regular pattern of meter and rhyme; free because doesn't have identifiable meter or rhyme scheme |
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| a figure of speech using exaggeration |
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a concrete representation of a sense, impression, feeling, or idea
-predominates when used throughout a work or used in a critical point in the work |
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| a pattern of images or other comparative aspects of language used in a literary work |
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contrast between what is said and what is meant or what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature
-verbal: says something opposite of what is meant
-of situation/circumstance: the opposite of what is expected occurs
-dramatic irony: when a character speaks in ignorance of an event known to the audience or other characters |
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| a form of language used by writers/speakers when they mean exactly what their words denote |
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| a poem marked by brevity, compression, and expression of feeling |
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| comparison between two unlike things without using the comparative words "as" or "like" |
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| the measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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