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| phrases that treat words in unusual, nonliteral ways |
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| a comparison using like or as |
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| a direct comparison between two unrelated things. |
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| an everyday object that represents a particular value |
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| A reference to a person, place, or thing from the past. |
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| A phrase that holds two opposite words together. |
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| Giving human qualities to objects or animals. |
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| Expressions that use multiple meanings of a word to make a joke. |
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| A narrator who interacts with other characters in the story. |
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| Know everything that happens in a story. |
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| Limited Omniscient Narrators |
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| Know what some characters are thinking. |
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| A narrator that can't be trusted. |
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| Have the same sounds at the end of words. |
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| Repetition of one sound at the beginning of words. |
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| Repeats consonant sounds. |
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| 14 rhymed lines that follow this pattern: ababcdcdefefgg |
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| Two lines of rhymed verse |
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| Tells us the structure of the verse. |
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| A line of poetry that continues on to the next line without pausing. |
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| System of describing rhythmic structures. |
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| Rhythm that has typical patterns. |
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| Scenes from the past that are inserted into a story. |
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| A scene that anticipates the outcome of a story. |
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| Not giving all of the important information until the end. |
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| A story that starts in the middle. |
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| The central events of a story. |
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| Characters that never change. |
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| Characters that change over time. |
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| Characters that are different enough to show a character's qualities. |
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| A genre of literature that includes extensive use of figurative language in a relatively limited amount of space. |
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| A genre of literature that includes extensive use of figurative language in a relatively limited amount of space. |
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| Lines of a poem that are unrhymed. |
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| A genre of literature that is considered untrue or imaginative. |
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| A storyteller's presentation of a sequence of events in a story. |
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| A major problem that can be external or internal. |
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| Characters and setting, as well as a conflict or problem, are introduced. |
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| The conflict intensifies, building toward a crisis. |
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| The point of maximum tension where the story changes forever. |
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| The resolution to the major conflict in a short story. |
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| A genre of fiction that recreates an event in the form of a play. |
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| A statement or proposition that the writer intends to support. |
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| The logic used to support the writer's claim. |
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| Specific details from a text that support a particular reason. |
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| An assumption that connects a writer's claim to his or her reasons. |
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| A model to use when interpreting a work of literature. |
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| New Criticism or Close Reading |
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| A work of literature that is to be examined outside any context and that contains one possible meaning. |
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| A work of literature that is to be examined for its symbolic use of words in a particular pattern. |
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| A work of literature that is to be examined with the view that there is no possibility of finding one single meaning. |
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| Reader Response Criticism |
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| A work of literature is to be examined for meaning by a multitude of readers. |
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| A work of literature that is to be examined for its psychological qualities. |
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| Historical and Sociological Criticism |
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| A work of literature that is to be examined within its environment and historical time period. |
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| A writer who knowingly or unknowingly copies another writer's information without giving proper credit. |
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| A writing skill where the writer translates a piece of information but maintains its original meaning. |
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| A writing skill where the writer writes the gist of a paragraph, a page, or an entire work. |
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| The Modern Language Association system of documentation for English and humanities. |
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| A list of sources used in a paper. |
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| A parenthesis after borrowed information that typically includes the author's last name and page number. |
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| An explanation of a particular aspect from a work of literature. |
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| An informed view of the meaning of a work of literature. |
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| A paragraph that includes a topic sentence, a transition to evidence, evidence from a text, and insight. |
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| Usually the first sentence in the introduction that connects to the author's main idea of the essay. |
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| An annotated list of sources found for a tentative research project. Ultimately, not all sources are included in the Works Cited. |
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