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| The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound: e.g.,"The twisting trout twinkled below" |
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| A reference to a mythological, literary, historical person, place, or thing: e.g.,"He met his Waterloo." |
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| A character or force against which a main character struggles |
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a direct juxaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast
e.g., "Sink or swim" |
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| a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate. |
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| the repition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words. |
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| The method a writer uses to reveal the personalilty of a character in a literary work |
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Flat-has only one or two personality traits
Round-complex character that have many traits
Stock-flat characters that have many common traits and are representative of their class or group |
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| the turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work |
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| a struggle between opposing forces |
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| the repetition of a consonant sound within a series og words to produce a harmonious effect. |
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| the denotation of a word is its dictionary definition. The connotation of a word is its emotional content. |
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| word choice intended to convey certain effect |
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| the writer tells the reader directly what the character is like |
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| a long narrative poem about the adventures of a god or a hero |
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| The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot in which necessary background information is provided |
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| a form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words |
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| a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event |
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| the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest a future action |
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| a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration |
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| The words of phrases a writer used to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| The reader must put clues together to figure out what the character is like |
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Verbal irony-when a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite.
Situational irony- when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect.
Dramatic irony-when a character or speaker says or does something that has different meanings from what he or she thinks it means, though the audience and other characters understand the full implications of the speech or action |
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| a comparison of two unlike things not using 'like' or 'as' |
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| differs from a regular metaphor in that it is sustained for several lines or sentences or throughout a work |
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| atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work |
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| a term that describes a patternt or strand of imagery or symbolism in a work of literature |
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| A piece of literary work that tells a series of events or a story |
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| the use of words that mimic the sounds they describe |
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| a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression |
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| a humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work |
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| a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstact ideas human characteristics |
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| the sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem |
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| the perspective from which a narrative is told |
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| the main character of a literary work |
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| the sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a drama or narrative |
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| The time and place in which the events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place |
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| a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of the words 'like' or 'as' |
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| the design of form of a literary work |
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| the writer's characteristic manner of emplying language |
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| the quality of a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the readers or audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
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| the use of any object, person, place, or action that not only has a meaning in itself, but also stands for something larger than itself, such as quality, attitude, belief, or value |
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| the central message of a literary work |
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| the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words and details |
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| the opposite of hyperbole. It is the kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is |
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