A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.

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the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.

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An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.

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The passive voice is a grammatical construction (specifically, a "voice"). The noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence (such as Our troops defeated the enemy) appears as the subject of a sentence with passive voice

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The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

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Known as creative writing or an argument, is a piece of writing in which the writer uses words to convince the reader that the writer's opinion is correct with regard to an issue.

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The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

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A particular attitude or way of considering a matter.

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A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.

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A separate introductory section of a literary or musical work.

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The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.

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A short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice.

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The reason for which something is done or created or for which something exists.

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A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

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A refrain is a repeated part of a poem, particularly when it comes either at the end of a stanza or between two stanzas

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The action of repeating something that has already been said or written.

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A firm decision to do or not to do something

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the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter

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A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point. The question, a rhetorical device, is posed not to elicit a specific answer, but rather to encourage the listener to consider a message or viewpoint.

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Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse.

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A related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.

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A major character in a work of fiction who encounters conflict and is changed by it.

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The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

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The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

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The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

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A type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people.

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An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.

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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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voice in a poem; the person or thing that is speaking

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Group of lines forming a unit in a poem

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a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue.

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A literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.   

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A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

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A stock character is a fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype. Stock characters rely heavily on cultural types or names for their personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics.

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The literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.

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point of view, tone, diction, narrative pace, humor, imagery, irony, figurative language and many more

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Language that can be interpreted in different ways depending on the reader

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technique that keeps the reader guessing what will happen next

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One thing (object, person, place) used to represent something else

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The use of symbols to convery meaning

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Mental or emotional strain

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The underlying main idea of a literary work.  Theme differs from the subject of a literary work in that it involves a statement or opinion about the subject.

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The main argument of an essay

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The author’s attitude toward the subject of a work.

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A work of literature that features a catastrophic fall from grace of its protagonist

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The opposite of hyperbole; the purposeful saying of less than what is ment

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The dominating tone of a literary work, not always identifiable with the actual views of the author.

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Intellectually amusing statement

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