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| pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or for form |
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| repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause |
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| the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses |
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| inversion of the natural or usual word order |
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| the repetition of a word in two different senses |
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| the substitution of one part of speech for another |
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| protagonist of a literary work who does not embody the traditional qualities of a hero |
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| the repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order |
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| the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words or phrases |
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| a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief |
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| most commonly used as a synonym of the word defense |
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| a figure of speech in which a person, thing, or abstract quality is addressed as if present |
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| the practice of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses |
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| to sidestep or evade the real problem, leaving the real question unanswered |
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| a novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character |
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| the works of an author that have been accepted as authentic |
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| "seize the day"; the philosophy that one should enjoy life to the fullest; take advantage of or live for the moment |
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| figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second |
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| a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects |
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| a sentence that withholds its main idea until the end |
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| intended for teaching or to teach a moral lesson |
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| movement away from the main story or theme of a piece of writing |
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| a formal discussion of a subject |
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| ghostly counterpart of a living person or an alter ego |
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| an imaginary place where people live dehumanized, often fearful lives |
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| poem or prose lamenting the death of a particular person |
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| the repetition of a word or words as the end of two or more successive verses |
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| the repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause |
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| highly ceremonial or ritualized language |
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| a sudden or intuitive insight or perception into the reality or essential meaning of something |
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| a piece of literature contained in or carried on by letters |
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| a person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast |
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| aristotle's term for the main character's tragic flaw or error in judgment |
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| refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, requiring filling in past details by exposition or flash |
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| the use of angry and insulting language in satirical writing |
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| parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length |
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| the deliberate use of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis and intensity |
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| a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses |
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| a figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to name or designate something |
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| recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event |
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| the use of words alike in sound but different in meaning, a pun |
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| words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish |
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| a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end |
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| repetition of words derived from the same root |
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| the deliberate use of many conjunctions |
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| the branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another |
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| refers to writing that expresses the author's beliefs in and attitudes toward a particular subject |
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| the use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs |
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| a form of deduction, extremely subtle, sophisticated, and deceptive |
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| when one sensory experience is described in terms of another sensory experience |
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| a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole |
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| the use of a word in a figurative sense with a decided change or extension in its literal meaning |
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| an imaginary place of ideal perfection, opposite of dystopia |
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| grammatically correct linkage of one subject with two or more verbs or a verb with two or more direct objects |
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