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In a sentence in the active, the person or thing that performed the action is the subject of the verb. Steve danced. |
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Narrative where similarities between the narrative are used symbolically to suggest something else. |
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Use of words beginning with the same letter to achieve a poetical effect. Steve stinks very much |
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A brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place or event, or to another literary work. |
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a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based |
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| the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work |
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| an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far less important, powerful, or striking than expected. |
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Antithesis [image] [image] |
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the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas “Give me liberty or give me death.” |
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| A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present. |
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| evidence in the form of an anecdote. |
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Using words or phrases that were common in earlier periods of time but are not today. Thou. |
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| An Aside is a literary device in that an actor speaks to the audience; he/she is not heard by the other characters. |
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the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences. "With the sound, with the sound, with the sound of the ground." |
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Feeling given to the reader of any article. |
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The reader or readers of a piece of literarture. |
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biography that is written by the person it is about |
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| A poem or story set to a song |
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a tendency or preference towards a particular veiwpoint, which may affect objectivity. |
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| a description of someone's life |
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| A type of poem with regular meter but no rhyming. |
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