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| narrative or dramatic story which may be applied to a parallel set of situations while maintaining its own integrity |
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| unacknowledged references and quotations. authors assume that readers will recognize the original sources, and relate their meaning in new context |
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| that point at which a dramatic character experiences increased self-knowledge and understanding |
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| the addressing of discourse to a real or imagined person who is not present; also, a speech to abstraction |
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| a short speech delivered by a character to another or to the audience, the convention being that the other characters cannot hear it; the speaker usually reveals his of her thoughts or plans |
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| the repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity |
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| words combining consonant sounds that do not permit an easy flow of pronunciation, but rather produces sharpness of harshness |
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| in closed form poetry, the pause separating units of rhythm |
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| the stimulation and subsequent elimination of pity, sympathy, fear and other strong emotions that, according to Aristotle, occur as one watches or reads an effective tragedy |
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| the final stage of plot development, in which all mysteries are explained and characters generally exit from the literary work. usually this is done as speedily as possible |
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| an extraordinary (computer game) and illogical event (that may be attributed to mysterious or divine origin) that solves all the problems from the work |
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| a character with the capacity to adapt, change and grow |
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| usually a long narrative poem that features heroic characters, momentous events, and elevated diction |
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| words containing consonants that permit an easy and pleasant flow of spoken sound |
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| a character, usually minor, who is not individualized and rounded, but how is relatively underdeveloped, static, and unchanging. the role of this character is not to be the center of interest, but rather to be useful and structural-a part of the scene and background |
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| a type of character who sets off or highlights aspects of the protagonist |
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| a short poem written in a repeating stanzaic form, often designed to be set to music, it usually emphasizes the thoughts and feelings of the speaker |
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