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| conpares two difeferent things using "like" or "as" |
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| compares two different things by saying that one thing "is" or "was" another |
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| repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a words |
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| repetition of vowel sounds within words |
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| words that represent sounds |
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| giving human qualities to non-human objects |
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| using a word(s) more than once in a sentence or stanza |
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| making reference to a famous person or event |
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| the beat or timing of a poem |
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| words that appeal to our feelings |
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| A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. |
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| Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one, as in com-pre-HEND or in-ter-VENE. |
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| A character or force against which another character struggles. |
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| A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn, when he must part from his lover. |
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| A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. |
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| A strong pause within a line of verse. |
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| An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. Literary characters may be major or minor, static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change). |
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| The means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal characters through their speech, dress, manner, and actions. Readers come to understand the character |
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| The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. |
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| A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. |
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| An intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work. |
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| A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The conflict may occur within a character as well as between characters. |
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| The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation. |
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| Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play. |
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| A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
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| A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-ing or BLUE-ber-ry. |
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| typically play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations, or suggested and implied associational implications. |
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| The resolution of the plot of a literary work. |
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| The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction, dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays, characters' speech is preceded by their names. |
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| The selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction forms one of its centrally important literary elements, as writers use words to convey action, reveal character, imply attitudes, identify themes, and suggest values. |
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| A lyric poem that laments the dead. |
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| The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry. |
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| A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. An enjambed line differs from an end-stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. |
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| A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero. Epics typically chronicle the origins of a civilization and embody its central values. |
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| A brief witty poem, often satirical. |
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| The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided. |
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| In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution. |
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| In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution. |
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| An imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama. |
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| A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
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| An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action. Writers use flashbacks to complicate the sense of chronology in the plot of their works and to convey the richness of the experience of human |
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| A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. |
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| A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story. |
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| Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. |
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| A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
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| A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea. |
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| The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
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| A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. |
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| A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote |
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| A type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and the expression of feeling. |
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| The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. |
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| A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea |
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| A poem that tells a story. |
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| The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author. |
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| An eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza; or a section of a poem, as in the octave of a sonnet. |
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| A type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure. |
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| A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation. |
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| The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. |
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| The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. |
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| The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse. |
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| A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |
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| The time and place of a literary work that establish its context. |
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| A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form |
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| The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques. |
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| What a story or play is about; to be distinguished from plot and theme. |
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| An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
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| The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. |
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| A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means; the opposite of exaggeration. |
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