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| Prose writing that is about real people, places, and events. |
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| Person who relates the events. |
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| The narrative method used to present a prose selection. |
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| The attitude expressed in the literature. |
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| Detailed impressions of people and events. |
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| Both time and place in a narrative. |
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| The way that a play, poem, short story, novel, or nonfiction selection is written. |
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| Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings. |
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| The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. |
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| The similarity of sound between two words. |
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| couplet and heroic couplet |
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| A couplet is when two successive lines contain end rhymes, when the meter is iambic pentameter as well they are heroic couplets. |
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| Arrangement of a poem, divisions, progressions, stanzas. |
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| The pattern of end rhyme in a poem. |
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| A metaphor continued into following sentences and stanzas. |
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| comparison using like or as |
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| A comparison between two dissimilar things. |
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| Questions not intended to produce answers. |
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| Story of a persons life written by that person. |
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| To sway readers or listeners in a particular direction. |
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| A brief nonfiction composition that offers an opinion on a subject. |
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| A person, place, or object that represents something beyond itself. |
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| The moving forces behind a character's actions. |
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| A contrast between appearance and reality. |
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| A short statement expressing a truth or opinion about life. |
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| The deliberate repetition of words, phrases, or sentences, often at the beginnings of successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs. |
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| A reference to a work of literature or to a person, place, or event outside of literature with which a writer or speaker expects an audience to be familiar. |
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| a point-by-point comparison between two dissimilar things for the purpose of clarifying the less familiar. |
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| When a writer or speaker expresses ideas of equal worth with the same grammatical form. |
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| A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, an animal, or an idea. |
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| Imaginative works of prose, including the novel and short story. |
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| Exhibits a kind of fairy-tale unreality and reveal a great deal about the culture in which they originated. |
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| The feeling the literary work conveys to the reader. |
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| Hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later in a narrative. |
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| Fiction that uses strange, gloomy settings and mysterious, violent, and often supernatural events to create suspense and terror. |
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| Created by Poe, a brief work of fiction intended to be read in one sitting focusing on one or two characters who face a single problem or conflict. |
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| A gripping sense of tension or excitement. |
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| Details that appeal to the senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch. |
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| A poem that tells a story, often a tragic one. |
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| A repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. |
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| repetition in literature of one or more lines in regular intervals. |
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| a story in which people, things and actions represent an idea about life; allegories often have a strong moral or lesson |
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| scolding, quarrelsome old lady |
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| not having marital relations |
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| incapable of being breached |
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| to regain the favor of, to win back |
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| label, mark (always negative) |
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| a belief against accepted beliefs |
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| cause something to happen |
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| *Some sort of rhythm, *A figurative level rather than simply literal |
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