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| story where people, things, events have another meaning |
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| multiple meanings a literary work may communicate |
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| direct adress, usually to someone or something not present |
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| implications of a word or phrase |
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| divice of style or subject matter that becomes a reconized means of expression |
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| dictionary meaning of a word as opposed to conentation |
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| the use of material unrealated to the subject of a work |
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| a pithy saying, ofting using contrast |
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| figure of speech using indirection to avoid offesive bluntness |
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| deliberate exaggeration, overstatement |
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| special language of a profession or group |
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| not figurative; accurate to the letter; matter of fact or concrete |
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| song like; characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination |
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| story desined to suggest a pricipal or illustrate moral, answer a question |
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| statment that seems conderdictory, but true |
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| composition that imitates the style of another complsition for commical effect |
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| figuratiev use of langauge that endows nonhuman with human characsitics |
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| a qaulity of some fictional narator whose word the reader cannot trust |
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| a question asked for effect, not for expecation of a reply |
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| speech in which a character who is alone speaks thoughts outloud |
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| a conventional pattern, expression, character, or idea |
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| a form of reasoning in qhich two staments are made and a conclusion is drawn from the |
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| the theme, meaning or position that a writer underatkes to support |
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