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| a figure of speech that empasizes its subject by understatement |
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| not theme; the central idea or statement of a story or area of inquiry or explanation. |
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| one thing pictured as though it were something else. |
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| a recurent device, formula or situation that often serves as a signal for the apearance of a character or event. |
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| a textual organization based on seequences of connected events, usually linear. |
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| exaggerated language; hyperbole |
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| a figure of speech that combines two apparently contridictory elements |
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| describes the simple life of country folk; ecologue, bucoli, or idyll |
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| treating a non-human object as if it had human qualities. |
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| the arrangement of the narration based on the cause-and-effect relationship of the events |
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| the practice inliteratue of attemptiong to describe nature and life without idealism and with attention to detail |
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| the development of action to a work; usually at the beginning |
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| the modulation of weak and strong (stressed and unstressed) elements in the flow of speech |
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| a form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical |
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| a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure |
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| the time and place of the action in a story, poem or play. |
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| a direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another usually using "like" or "as" |
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| chracter who appeared in a number of stories or plays |
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| a distinction mannner of expression; diction, rhyme, imagery, etc. |
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| when a part is used to signify a whole |
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| the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses and sentences |
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| a generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred centralor dominant idea or concern of the work |
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| the third part of plot structure; climax |
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| the source of words in the story; the speaker |
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