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| Writing that is typically complex, discusses intangible qualities, and seldom uses examples |
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| Adjective describing style, referring to dry and theoretical writing (writing seems to be sucking life out of its subject through analysis) |
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| Poetic term referring to the stressed portion of a word |
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| Adjective meaning "appealing to the senses" |
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| Story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself (Think: Aesop) |
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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| The word, phrase, or clause that determines what the pronoun refers to |
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| Inanimate objects are given human characteristics |
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| A short and usually witty saying |
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| A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is non-human |
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| The deliberate use of antique and old-fashioned language |
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| A speech made by an actor to the audience as though momentarily stepping outside the action on stage |
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| A trait or characteristic |
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| The repeated use of vowel sounds |
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| Pathos is when writing evokes feelings of dignified pity. Bathos is when writing attempts to jerk tears from every little event |
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| Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned vocabulary |
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| Using deliberately harsh or awkward sounds |
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| Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences at having lived through the experiences on stage |
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| A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't part of an accepted dictionary |
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| More than one possibility in the meaning of words |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds within words |
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| Characters speech is styled according to his/her social station and in accordance with occassion |
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| Song for the dead that is typically slow, melancholy, and heavy |
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| A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner |
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| A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality |
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| Lines rhymed by their final two syllables |
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| The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall |
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| A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |
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| Similar to allegory; instructs the reader |
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| A third-person narrator who sees, like God, into each caharacter's mind and understands all the actions occurring |
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| Limited Omniscient Narrator |
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| Third-person narrator who generally reports one what one character sees and only reports the thoughts of that character |
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| The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings |
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