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| tense statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle. |
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| figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction |
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| emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described |
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| representation, espically pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect |
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| figure of speech based on inverted parallelism |
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| grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |
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| slang or informality in speech or writing |
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| fanciful expression, usually in form of extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects |
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| nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; implied or suggested meaning |
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| strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude or color |
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| related to stlye, refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. |
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| from greek, means instructive. didactic works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, espically teaching of moral or ethnic principles |
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| from greek, good speech. more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts. |
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| metaphor developed at great length, occuring frequenntly in or throughout a work |
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| writing or speech that isnt intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative a vivid |
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| device used to produce figurative language. |
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| describes traditions for each genre. these conventions help to define each genre; they differentiate between an essay and journalistic writing or autobiography and political writing |
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| major category into which a literary work fits. basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. |
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