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| Which way did that little widget go, west? |
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| To err is human;// to forgive, divine. |
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| Bob said "This sweater fits so well. You could say it was like my personal glass slipper." |
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| the quality of being brief |
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| Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk to you again. |
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| words spoken by an actor that are meant just for the audience |
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| an account of one's personal life, usually with sensory details and focus |
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| the decisive moment in a play or work of literature |
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If turkeys gobble,
do pilgrims squabble?
two successive rhyming lines of verse |
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| technique in poetry where a sentence is carried over to the next line without a pause |
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| the ability to use language well |
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| an amusing scene in a play to relieve tension |
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| an improbable device that resolves a plot quickly |
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| the resolution of a drama or novel |
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| the dictionary definition of a word |
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| a society's associated or secondary meaning of a word |
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about people.
brief, clever, usually memorable statement |
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I hate him so much; I wish he'd die a thousand deaths.
exaggerated statement for literary device |
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| poetry without a defined form or rhyme scheme |
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| a metrical unit in poetry |
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| personification, similes, and metaphors fall into this category |
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| supplying something, especially food or other necessities |
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| background information in a literary work |
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| a simple symbolic story usually employing animals as characters |
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| able to be used selfishly for one's own ends |
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| hints of future events in a literary work |
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| a piece of advice or warning against something |
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| the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things |
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| I never pay attention to what happens on Wall Street. The stock market never interested me much. |
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| a type of poetry characterized by emotion, personal feelings, and brevity |
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| a type of poetry that explores highly complex ideas through extended metaphors and paradox |
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| a pattern of beats in poetry |
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| the repetition of an image or idea in a work of literature |
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| dramatic, verbal, or situational, for example |
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| the quality of showing an openness to attack or criticism |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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| the act of inventing plausible explanations for something that is actually based on other causes or the act of employing reason |
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| a speech given by one character |
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| a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” |
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| a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson |
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| Plots in which each main character has a separate but related story line that merges in the end |
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| a musical, literary, or other composition that mimics the style of another composer, author, etc, in a humorous or satirical way |
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| the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion |
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| the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure |
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| Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story |
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| the position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters |
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| earnest request or petition; supplication |
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| the act of reproving, censuring, or rebuking |
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| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc |
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| the act of talking while or as if alone |
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| those components or features of a literary composition that have to do with the form of expression rather than the content of the thought expressed |
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