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| a simple story that illustrates a moral or religous lesson |
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| a humorous imitation of a serious work |
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| A comment that interrupts the immediate subject, often to qualify or explain |
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| characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship |
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| the action of a narrative or drama |
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| a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings |
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| the falling action of a narrative, the events following the climax |
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| the art of presenting ideas in a clear, effective, and persuasive manner |
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| a question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer |
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| a term describing a character or literary work that reflects the characteristics of Romanticism, the literary movement beginning in the late 18t century that stressed emotion, imagination, and individualism |
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| a character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work |
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| harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule |
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| the use of humor to emphasize human weakness or imperfection in social institutions |
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| a compairison of two things using like or as or other specifically comparative words |
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| the choices a writer makes, the combination of distinctive features of a literary work |
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| an object that is used to represent something else |
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| Express the meaning of (the writer or speaker or something written or spoken) using different words, esp. to achieve greater clarity. |
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| a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause. |
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| Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure |
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| A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse |
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| Something, esp. a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting: "the book is fast-paced and full of red herrings". |
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| the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions |
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| The action of repeating something. |
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