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| The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb |
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| The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form |
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| The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
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| A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication |
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| A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based |
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| A person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another |
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| A disappointing decline after a previous rise |
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| The direct or exact opposite |
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| A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present |
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| Non-scientific observations or studies, which do not provide proof but may assist research efforts |
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| A language of an earlier period |
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| A temporary departure from a main theme or topic, esp. a parenthetical comment or remark; short digression. |
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| Resemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words |
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| The dominant mood or emotional tone of a work of art |
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| The persons reached by a book |
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| A history of a person's life written or told by that person. |
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| Any poem written in similar style. |
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| A particular tendency or inclination, esp. one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question |
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| A written account of another person's life |
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| Verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic pentameter. |
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