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| Associations a word calls to mind |
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| same consonant sound in words with different vowel sounds |
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| A character with traits that are expected or traditional |
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| Two successive rhyming lines of the same number of syllables with matching cadence |
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| Food of poetry with three syllables, one stressed, and two short or unstressed. Think of the waltz rhythm |
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| the dictionary or literal meaning of a word or phrase |
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| the outcome or clarification at the end of a story or play; the winding down from climax to ending |
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| Literally, when the gods intervene at a story's end to resolve a seemingly impossible conflict. Refers to an unlikely or improbable coincidence; a cop-out ending |
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| The deliberate choice of style of language for a desired effect or tone. Words chosen to achieve a particular effect that is formal, informal, or colloquial |
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| A _____ story, speech, essay or play is one in which the author's primary purpose is to instruct, teach, or moralize. |
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| An exaggeration or stretching of the truth to achieve a desired effect |
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| In poetry, the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza into the next without stopping at the end of the first |
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| A short, clever poem with a witty turn of thought |
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| a brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme |
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| Eureka! A sudden flash of insight. A startling discovery and/or appearance; a dramatic realization |
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| a novel in letter form written by one or more of the characters. The novelist can use this technique to present varying first-person points of view and does not need a narrator |
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| A short composition on a single topic expressing to view or interpretation of the writer on that topic |
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| substitution of an inoffensive word or phrase for another that would be harsh, offensive, or embarrassing |
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| the quality of a pleasant or harmonious sound of a word or group of words as an intended effect |
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| A kind of comedy that depends on exaggerated or impossible situations, physical disasters, and sexual innuendo to amuse the audience |
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| Unlike literal expression, figurative language uses figures of speech such as metaphor, simile, metonymy, personification, and hyperbole |
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| A character in the story tells the story using the pronoun I. |
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| Interruption of a narrative by the introduction of an earlier event or by an image of a past experience |
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| A simple, one-dimensional character who remains the same, and about whom little or nothing is revealed throughout the course of the work |
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| A character whose contrasting personal characteristics draw attention to, enhance, or contrast with those of the main character. A character who by displaying opposite traits, emphasizes certain aspects of another character |
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| hints at what is to come. |
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| Poetry that does not have regular rhythm or rhyme |
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| the category into which a piece of writing can be classified |
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| In poetry, a rhymed couplet written in iambic pentameter |
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| Insolence, arrogance, or pride |
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