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| The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect. For example, buzz, click, rattle, and grunt make sounds akin to the noise they represent. |
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| An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverbial preposition such as like or as in contrast with a metaphor. |
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| Figures of speech in which things are spoken of as if they were something else. |
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| An exaggeration or overstatement. Like Puns, Metaphors, and Simile. |
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| A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character traits, abilities, or reactions. |
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| A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions. Examples: mysteries, westerns, sonnets, lyric poetry, epics, tragedies. |
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A general term for literary techniques that portray the difference between appearance and reality, or expectation and result.
Verbal Irony: Words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant.
Dramatic Irony: There is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true.
Situational Irony: An event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader, or the audience. |
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| language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. |
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| Conversation between two or more persons. |
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| Harshly or bitter derision or irony. |
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| a person who gives an account or tells the story of events,experiences, etc. |
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a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting. |
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| to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: |
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| a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. |
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| character in conflict with himself or herself (person vs. self) |
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| Character struggles against an outside force. |
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| the time and place of action |
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| a person or animal who takes part in action |
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| The time and place of action in a literary work. |
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| Also called atmosphere, it is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. It is often suggested by descriptive details. It can often be described in a single word such as light-hearted, frightening, or despairing. |
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| A person or an animal who takes part in the action of a literary work. |
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| Christian thinkers used this term to signify a manifestation of God's presence in the world. It has since become in modern fiction and poetry the standard term for the sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or scene. In particular, the epiphany is a revelation of such power and insight that it alters the entire world-view of the thinker who experiences it |
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| The main character. The most important character in a story. |
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Character: shows many different traits--faults as well as virtues.
Flat Character: Shows only one trait.
Dynamic Character: Develops and changes during the course of the story.
Static Character: Does not change during the story |
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| The part of the plot line following the falling action. In the denouement or resolution, a general insight or change is conveyed. |
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| The sequence of events in a literary work. In most novels, dramas, short stories, and narrative poems, the plot involves both characters and a central conflict. |
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