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| Story or poem, characters stand for other people/abstract ideas or qualities |
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| Repetition same or similar constant sounds |
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| Reference to someone or something from history |
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| Deliberately suggesting two or more meanings |
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| Comparison btw two things to show how they are alike |
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| Repitition of word/phrase at beginning of two or more sentences in a row |
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| Inversion of usual order of sentence |
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| Opponent who struggles against or blocks hero |
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| Repitition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order |
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| Balancing words that are strongly contrasted |
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| Central character that lacks qualities associated with heros |
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| Attributing human characteristics to animals |
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| Calling out to dead, imaginary, absent person |
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| Placing in succession, separated by colon |
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| Repitition of similar vowel sounds |
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| Commas used to separate without conjunctions |
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| Constructing sentence so both halves are equal |
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| Process writer reveals personality of character |
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| Author directly tells what character is like |
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| Indirect characterization |
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| Author reveals what character is like through looks and what the character says |
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| Does not change in course of the story |
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| One that changes in the course of the story |
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| Has only one or two personality traits |
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| More dimensions to their personalities |
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| Poetry, rhetorical balance, second part syntactically balanced against the first |
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| Word or phrase that has become lifeless |
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| Word or phrase used in everyday conversation |
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| Elaborate metaphor that compares two completely s difthingsthings |
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| Poetry that uses intimate material from the poets life |
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| Ctruggle btw opposing forces |
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| Conflicts btw a person, nature, machine, or society |
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| Associations and emotional overtones attached to words or phrases |
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| Two consecutive rhyming lines in poetry |
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| Way of speaking characterized with a certain group in a certain area |
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| Fiction/nonfiction that teaches a lesson |
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| Repetition in which same expression repeated at beginning and end |
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| QuotationQuotation at beginning of literary work |
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| repetition same expression repeated at end of line |
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| Adjective applied to person applied to something frequently used to emphasize a characteristic |
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| Short piece of nonfiction prose, discusses a subject |
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| Four forms of discourse to develope an effective means to convince the reader |
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| Language to create a mood |
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| Tells about a series of events |
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| Act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of text |
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| Very short story that teaches a lesson |
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| Comedy in which ridiculous and stereotyped characters are involved |
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| Word which are inaccurate if interpreted literally |
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| Scene that interrupts normal sequence of events |
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| Character who acts contrast to another character |
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| Hints or clues to suggest what will happen later |
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| Character that doesn't conform to regular meter |
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| Figure speech that uses exaggeration |
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| Sentence marked by use of connecting words btw clauses or sentences |
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| Use of language to evoke a picture |
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| Reverse of normal word order in a sentence or phrase |
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| Discrepancy btw appearances and reality |
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| Someone says something but really means something else |
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| discrepancy btw what is expected to happen and what really does happen |
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| Character in a play thinks one thing is trme, but the audience knows better |
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| Poetic, normally unassociated ideas are pleased nean on one another creating an effect of wit |
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| Positive form emphasized through negation of negative form |
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| Term applied to fiction, place special emphasis on a particular setting |
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| Main clause comes first followed by dependent grammatical units |
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| Poem doesn't tell a story but expresses personal thoughts |
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| Comparison btw two unlike things without use of specific words of comparison |
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| Docan not state explicitly the two terms of comparison |
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| Metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid |
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| Metaphor that has gotten out of control and mixes its terms, visually incompatible |
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| Person, place, for thing is referred to by something closely associated with it |
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| Atmosphere created by diction and details |
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| Recurring image, word, phrase, etc used throughout a work |
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| Reasons for characters behavior |
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| Words whose sounds echo their sense |
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| Contains opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase |
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| Short story that teaches a lesson about how to lead a good life |
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| Statement that appears self-contradictory |
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| Paradox used in Zen Buddhism |
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| Juxtaposes clauses or sentences |
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| Works that make fun of another work by imitating some aspects of a writers style |
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| Places main idea at the end of the sentence |
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| An object or animal is given thoughts or feelings |
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| Series related events in a story or play |
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| Introduces characters, situation, setting |
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| Complications in conflict and situations |
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| Plot that creates greatest intensity |
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| Vantage point from which the writer tells the story |
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| One character tells the story |
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| Unknown narrarator tells the story |
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| All knowing narrator tells the story |
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| Narrator who is impersonal tells the story |
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| Uses conjunction with no commas |
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| Central character in the story |
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| Play on words, uses words that sound alike but with different meanings |
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| Poem consisting of four lines |
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| Word, phrase, line, or group lines that is repeated for effect |
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| Rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation ostresses end and unstressed syllables |
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| Art of effective communication |
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| Question asked for effect |
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| Story in which an idealized hero undertakes a quest and using successful |
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| Type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people/institution to bring about change |
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| Makes an explicity comparison btw two unlike things using words such as like, as, then, or resembles |
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| Long speech made by a character while he or she is alone |
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| Fixed idea of a character that does not allow for individuality |
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| Style of writing that portrays the inner workings of a characters mind |
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| Way in which writer uses a language |
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| feeling of uncertainty for curiosity |
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| Person, place, thing, or event that stands for something more than itself |
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| Part represents the whole |
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| Ability to create a variety f sentence structures |
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| Sentence structures that are complex and involved |
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| Outrageously exaggerated story, unbelievable |
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| Sentence shorter than five words |
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| Insight about human life revealed in a literary work |
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| Attitude a writer takes toward a n subject, characters, or audience |
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| Story where a heroic character dies or has an unhappy resolution |
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| Sentence with three parts of equal importance or length |
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| Statement that says less than it means |
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| Unified parts of writing related to one central idea |
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| Language spoken by people that live in a particular area |
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