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| the emphasis, or stress, given a syllable in pronunciation |
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| a major division in the action of a play |
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| a narration or description usually restricted to a single meaning because its events, actions, characters, settings, and objects represent specific abstractions or ideas |
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| the repetition of the same consonant sound in a sequence of words, usually at the beginning of a word or stressed syllable |
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| a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature. |
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| allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, phrase, action, or situation, all of which can be supported by the context of a work. |
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| a word or phrase made from the letters of another word or phrase, as "heart" is an anagram of "earth" |
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| the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured |
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| the character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise to the conflict of the story; an opponent of the protagonist |
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| a protagonist who has the opposite of most of the traditional attrivutes of a hero. |
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| an address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend |
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| sounds are almost but not exactly alike, also near rhyme, slant rhyme. |
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| a term used to describe universal symbols that evoke deep and sometimes unconscious responses in a reader |
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| in drama, a speech directed to the audience that supposedly in not audible to the other characters onstage at the time |
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| the repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same, for example, "asleep under a tree" |
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| traditionally, a ballad is a song, transmitted orally from generation to generation, that tells a story and that eventually is written down. |
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| a four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, consisting of alternating eight- and six-syllable lines. usually only the second and fourth lines rhyme |
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| an approach to literature which suggests that knowledge of the author's life can aid in the understanding of his or her work |
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| unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| language that is discordant and difficult to pronounce |
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