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| Complex, Intangible style of writing. Seldom use examples. |
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| Determined to continue living with passion even though life appears to e meaningless. Sisyphus w/rock. |
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| Style of writing. Sucks all life out of writing. Dry, theoretical |
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| In poetry, the stressed portion of a word. |
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| "Appealing to the Senses". Coherent, overall sense of taste. Coffin-sleeper. Aesthetics=study of beauty. |
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| A story in which all individual parts have a metaphorical meaning. Ex=Plato's cave. |
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| Repetition of INITIAL consonant sounds. |
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| Reference to another work or famous figure. Can be classic, cultured, or pop culture. |
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| Result of something being stated in a way which the meaning cannot be determined. Anything Zawacki says. "I would waste no time in hiring him." |
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| Misplaced in Time. Brutus with a wristwatch. |
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| A Comparison. Usually have two or more symbolic parts. |
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| Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at beginning of successive verses/clauses/etc. |
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| A short narrative or story. |
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| Word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. |
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| Inanimate objects being given human qualities. (no human shape needed) |
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| Action produces smaller results than expected. |
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| Protagonist who is completely unheroic: morally weak, coward, dishonest, etc. Deadpool. |
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| Speaker talks to something that is nonhuman or absent. "I see dead people" |
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| Terse, witty, instructive saying, maxim. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." |
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| Deliberate use of old-fashioned language. Ye Olde anything. |
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| Original model off of which a character or object/theme is developed. |
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| Speech (monologue) by actor *to audience*. Breaks forth wall. |
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| Repeated use of vowel sounds. |
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| Emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene. |
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| Long poem. Regular meter/rhyme. More folksy than an epic. |
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| Writing strains for grandeur and tries to create tears from every hiccup. |
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| Novel that recounts development from childhood to maturity. |
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| Use of disturbing themes in comedy. Death, racism, etc. |
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| Unrhymed verse, unrhymed iambic patameter. |
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| Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. |
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| A broad parody. Pretty much parody. |
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| Deliberate use of harsh, awkward sounds. |
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| Beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense. |
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| Pause in line of poetry. Natural rhythm. |
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| Name for section dividing long work of poetry. |
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| A Portrait (verbal/physical) that exaggerates a facet of personality. |
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| Cleansing of emotion that audience feels watching a play. |
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| a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. This may involve a repetition of the same words. "Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure" |
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| Group of citizens who stand outside happenings. Comment on happenings, though. |
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| New word, usually invented on spot. |
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| More than one possibility for meaning of a word. Multiple layers of interpretation of a word. |
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| Conceit, controlling image |
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| Startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor expanded upon across several lines. |
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| Implied meaning/Direct meaning. |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds WITHIN words. |
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| Pair of lines which rhyme. |
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| When a style of speech follows common place in life. Bum speaks of bumly things. |
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| Instructs or provides information for a particular purpose. |
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| Author's choice of words. Word choice/word order choice. |
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| Song for the dead. Usually slow, heavy, depressed. |
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| Grating of incompatible sounds. |
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| Crude, simplistic verse, usually like limericks. |
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| Expression with more than one meaning. Anything that results in "That's what SHE said!" |
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| When the audience knows something that the characters do not. |
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| When a single speaker says something to a silent audience. |
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| One who changes somehow, someway in the span of the story. |
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| Type of poem which meditates on death or morality in a serious, thoughtful manner. |
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| Omission of words understood in the context. |
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| Continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet to the next with no pause. |
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| Long narrative poem, serious theme, dignified style. Beowulf. |
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| Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial site. |
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| Same word used with two different meanings. "Fine for parking here." |
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| Word or phrase that takes the place of something else: "do the deed" instead of "fuck" |
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| When sounds blend harmoniously, it's euphony. |
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| To say or write something clearly, directly. |
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| Lines rhymed by their final *two* syllables. |
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| Section of literary work that interrupts a sequence of events to relate an event from an earlier time. |
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| Secondary character whose purpose is to highlight characteristics of main character. Second banana. Bottom->Quince. |
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