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| A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Allegories usually have a strong lesson or moral. |
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| A repetition or initial consonant sounds in words. |
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| A reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event. |
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| A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way. |
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| Meter that is composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accended, usually used in light or whimsical poetry, such as a limerick. |
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| A brief story that illustrates or makes a point. |
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| A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist) |
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| A wise saying, usually short and written. |
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| A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or personified abstraction) who is present or absent. For example, in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one women about his father's death. |
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| A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another - for example, white stripes. |
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| Unrhymed verse, often occuring in iambic pentameter. |
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| A break in the rhythm of language, particularly a natural pause in a line of verse, makred in prosody by a double vertical line. |
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| A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits. |
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| An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power. |
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| Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels - for example, stroke of luck. |
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| A stanza made up of two rhyming lines. |
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| An author's choice of words based on their clearness, conciseness, effectiveness, and authenticity. |
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| Old-fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech. |
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| Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions. |
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| A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic region. |
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| Specialized language used in a particular field or content area. |
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| Language that shwos disrespect for others or something sacred. |
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| Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves. |
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| Language widely considered crude, disgusting, and oftentimes offensive. |
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| Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse. |
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| Also know as run-on line in poetry. Enjambment occurmes when on line ends and continues onto the next line completing meaning. For example, in Thoreau's poem "My life has been the poem I woudl have writ," the first line is "My life has been the poem I would have writ," and hte second line completes the meaning - "but I could not both live and utter it." |
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| A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. |
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| A literary device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of a narrative. |
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| A metrical foot is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). |
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| Unstressed, unstressed, stressed. |
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| Stressed, unstressed, unstressed. |
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| A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story. |
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| Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre. |
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| A category of literature defined by its style, form, and content. |
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| A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter. |
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| The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero. |
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| An exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect. |
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| The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind. |
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| Rhyme that occurs within the line of a verse. |
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| The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. |
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| The reader sees the character's errors, but the character does not. |
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| The writer says one thing and means another. |
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| The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result. |
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| A type of pun, or a play on words, that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind. |
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| A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated, such as "This winter is bear." |
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| A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| The feeling a text evokes in the reader, such as a sadness, tranquility, or elation. |
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| A lesson a work of literature is teaching. |
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| The use of sound words to suggest meaning, as in buzz, click, or vroom. |
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| A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms - for example, "deafening silence." |
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| A contradictory statement that makes sense. |
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| A literary device in which animals, ideas, and things are represented as having human traits. |
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| The perspective from which a story is told. |
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| The story is told from the point of view of one character. |
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| The story is told by someone outside the story. |
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| The narrator of the story shares the thoughts and feelings of one character. |
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| The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one character. |
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| The narrator records the action from his or her point of view, unaware of any of the other character's thoughts or feelings. This perspective is also known as the objective view. |
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| The repetiton of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, particularly at the end of each stanza. |
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| The regular or random occurence of sound in poetry. |
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| The time and place in which the action of a story takes place. |
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| A comparison of two unlike things, usually includes the word like or as. |
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| How the author uses words, phrases, and sentences to form ideas. |
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| A person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else, such as the white flag that represents surrender. |
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| Teh overall feeling created by an author's use of words. |
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| Philosophical movement focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. |
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| A metric line or poetry. A verse is named based on the kind and number of feet composing it. |
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| Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech pattern. |
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| A short poem, often written by an anonymous author, comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited. |
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| The main section of a long poem. |
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| A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. |
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| A long narrative detailing a hero's deads. |
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| A type of Japenese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. |
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| A humorous verse form of five anapestic (composed of feet that are short-short-long or unaccented-unaccented-accented) lines with a rhyme scheme of aabba. |
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| A short poem about personal feelings and emotions. |
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| A fourteen-line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme. |
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| A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains. |
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| The outcome or resolution of plot in a story. |
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