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| an indirect but meaningful reference, usually to an event, idea, character, etc. in mythology, history, literature, or other arts |
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| the prevailing mood or feeling in a literary work, which is created by all the elements in the work, including style, setting, plot, characters, dialogue, etc. |
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| figures of speech or "tropes" used imaginatively in a non-literal manner to deepen meaning |
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| a type of figurative language in which two things are compared by equating one thing with another |
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| metaphor in which a smaller part stands for a large part |
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| metaphor in which one thing stands for something with which it is closely associated |
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| sudden shift to direct address, either to an absent person or to an abstract of inanimate entity |
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| a type of figurative language that attributes human qualities, feelings, abilities, etc. to inanimate objects or abstractions |
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| a type of figurative language comparing two things using "like" or "as" |
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| an elaborated comparison; the epic simile differs from an ordinary simile in being more involved and more ornate |
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| an object, person, image, word, action, place, etc. to evoke a larger meaning; anything invested with meaning besides its literal significance |
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| the author's attitude toward a character, speaker, subject, or audience--not stated directly but conveyed through language |
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| all the images within a passage, an entire work, a group of works |
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| self-contradictory statement |
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| the juxtaposition of two words that mean the exact opposite used to describe something |
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| extravegant exaggeration of fact, used for serious or comic effect |
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| inversion of the usual, normal or logical order of the parts of a sentence. It is deliberate and is used to secure rhythm or to gain emphais of euphony (pleasant sound) |
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| repitition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses |
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| the use of two or more words in the same or adjacent lines containing the same initial sound |
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| repitition of terminal consonants but not of vowels in two or more stressed syllables |
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| repitition of vowel sounds |
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| attributed to a passage in which the speech sounds seem pleasant and musical to the ear |
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| jarring noise of language |
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| words that sound like what they mean |
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| in poetry, the continuation of a sentence or idea from one line to the next |
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| lines of poetry in which a phrase, clause, or sentence ends at the end of the line |
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| line of poetry ending in an unstressed syllable |
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| a lline of poetry that ends in a stressed syllable |
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| occurs within a single line |
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| eye-rhyme (imperfect rhyme) |
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| look alike (spelled alike) but pronounced differently |
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