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| The highest levle of usage, in which no slang contractions or fragments are used. |
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| A classification of literature: drama, novle, short story, poem. |
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| Unmitigated pride, often the cause of the hero's downfall in greek tragedy. |
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| A purposeful exaggeration. |
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| Passages or words that stir feelings or memories through an appeal to the senses. |
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| The use of known facts and specific details to arrive at a general conclusion or interpretation. |
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| The familiar, everyday level of usage, which includes contractions and perhaps slang but precludes nonstandard grammar and punctuation |
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| The process of generating subjects, topics, details, and plans for writing. |
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| Lack of agreement between expectation and reality. ... |
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| An important point or question that has more than one view or answer and provides the basis for the claims in an argument or interpretation. |
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| The specialized words and expressions belonging to certain professions, sports, hobbies, or social groups. |
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| The simultaneous presentation of two conflicting images or ideas, designed to make a point of the contrast: for example, an elaborate and well-kept church surrounded by squalorous slums. |
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| A figure of speech that makes an imaginative comparison between two literally unlike things. example: Sylvias face was a pale star |
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| The emotional content of a scene or setting, usually described in terms of feeling: somber, gloomy, joyful, expectant. |
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| A pattern of identical or similar images recuring throughout a passage or entire work. |
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| A traditional story involving deities and heros, usually expressing and inculcating the established values of a culture. |
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| A story line in prose or verse. |
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| The person who tells the story to the audience or reader. |
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| A word that sounds like what it names: |
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| A single phrase that juxtaposes opposite terms: the lonly croud, a roaring silence. |
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| A story designed to demonstrate a principle or lesson using symbolic characters, details, and plot lines. |
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| An apparently contradictory statement that, upon examination, makes sense. |
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| In prose, a restatement in different words, usually briefer than the original version; in poetry, a statement of the literal meaning of the poem in everyday language. |
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| An imitation of a piece of writing, copying some features such as diction, style, and form, but changing or exaggerating other features for humorous effect. |
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| The person created by the writer to be the speaker of the poem or story. The persona is not usually identical to the writer-for example, a personally optimistic writer could create a cynical persona to narrate a story. |
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| Giving human qualities to nonhuman things. |
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| An image shaped like the male sex organ; suggests male potency or male dominance. |
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| Carelessly or deliberatly presenting the words or ideas of another writer as your own; literary theft. |
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| A series of causally related events or episodes that occure in a narrative or play. |
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| The angle or perspective from which a story is reported and interpereted. |
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