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| typically complex, discusses intangible qualities, seldom uses examples to support its points |
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| dry and theoretical writing, sucks all the life out of its subject with analysis |
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| appealing to the senses; artistic judgement |
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| story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside of the tale itself; fables |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| a reference to another work or famous figure |
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| means "misplaced in time" |
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| when inanimate objects, animals or natural phenomena are given human characteristics. not to be confused with personification. |
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| a protagonist who is unheroic, morally weak, cowardly, dishonest |
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| an address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea |
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| a speech made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage |
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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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| when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup |
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| when the writing of a scene evokes feelings of dignified pity and sympathy |
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| use of disturbing themes in comedy |
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| pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language |
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| using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds |
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| the group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it |
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| conceit; controlling image |
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| startling or unusual metaphor |
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a word's literal meaning
CONNOTATION is everything else that the word suggests or implies |
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the repetition of consonant sounds
(floCK of siCK, blaCK cheCKered duCKs) |
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| a pair of lines that end in rhyme |
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| authors choice of words. diction is whether to use one word or another, syntax is the ordering and structuring of words. |
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| grating of incompatible sounds |
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| when the audience knows something that the characters do not |
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| a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner |
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| lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place |
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| when sounds blend harmoniously |
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| lines rhymed by their final two syllables |
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| secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast |
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| basic rhythmic unit of a line of poetry. formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed |
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| sensibility derived from gothic novels |
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| the excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall |
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| it refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head. |
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| a statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean |
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| a sentence that is not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase |
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| a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |
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| a word used to stand for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with. |
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| the work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness |
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| the narrator in a non-first-person novel. |
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| giving an inanimate object human qualities or form |
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| perspective from which the action of a novel is presented |
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| a question that suggests an answer |
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| exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor |
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| a question that suggests an answer |
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| speech spoken by a character alone on stage |
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| exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor |
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| demand made of a theater audience to accept limitations of staging and supply details with imagination |
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| a device in literature where an object represents an idea |
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| the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. |
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