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| A type of literature based on humorous or improbable plot. Also a tone. |
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| Writing or speech that isn't intended to carry literal meaning. Vivid. |
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| Devices used to produce figurative language. |
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| Someone who serves as a contrast or challenge to another character. |
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| Traditions for each genre of literature (characteristics.) |
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| The major category into which a literary work fits. (Poetry, prose, drama.) |
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| Sermon. Informally, can mean any serious talk/speech/lecture involving moral/spiritual advice. |
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| Uses deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. Often used with irony. |
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| Sensory details. Describes, creates emotion and ideas. Appeals to more than one sense. |
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| Drawing a reasonable conclusion from prescribed info. |
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| An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. |
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| Contrast between what is stated and what is meant. |
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| Understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the contrary. (Not bad at all, no small problem) |
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| The type of pun or play on words that results when two words become jumbled in the speaker's mind. |
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| The name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. (The White House declared...) |
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| Atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. Affected by setting, tone and events. |
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| The telling of a story or an account of an event. |
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| Words that sound like the sound they make. (Bam, pow, boink.) |
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| Grouping of apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox. |
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| A brief story, teaches a moral. (A tiny allegory.) |
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| A statement that appears to be self-contradictory but has some validity. |
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| The way words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs are formed. (Structural similarity.) |
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| A work that closely imitates the style or content of another. (Comic effect, ridicule.) |
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| A form of personification giving human traits to nature. |
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| Greek for suffering/passion. Part/character in story meant to elicit sorrow. |
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| A tone that is overly scholarly, academic. |
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| Human qualities to non-human things. |
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| Perspective from which a story is told. |
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