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a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are oftenpersonifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy.
Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.
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a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or ficticious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.
An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion. |
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| the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. The key is to ascertain the relationship between the first so you can choose the correct second pair. Part to whole, opposites, results of are types of relationships you should find. |
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| brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words. |
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| is when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds as in consonance. |
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| a story in which the protagonist undergoes growth throughout the entire narrative, generally starting off by being removed or chased from their home. Their growth is often impeded by opposition of their desires by other characters |
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| the method used by a writer to develop a character. The method includes (1) showing the character's appearance, (2) displaying the character's actions, (3) revealing the character's thoughts, (4) letting the character speak, and (5) getting the reactions of others. |
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| an implied meaning of a word. |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, |
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the struggle found in fiction- may be internal or external and is best seen in (1) Man in conflict with another Man: (2) Man in conflict in Nature; (3) Man in conflict with self.
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| the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning |
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| he choice of language used by the speaker or writer. For instance a young adult uses different words, language, style depending on to whom s/he is speaking or writing. |
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| the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener; or in the case of doublespeak, to make it less troublesome for the speaker. It also may be a substitution of a description of something or someone rather than the name, to avoid revealing secret, holy, or sacred names to the uninitiated, or to obscure the identity of the subject of a conversation from potential eavesdroppers. |
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| character that contrasts second character that highlights certain qualities of that first character. |
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| he use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature. |
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| he use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature. |
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| is exaggeration or overstatement. |
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an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
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| s language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching. |
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| in literature, it's when one theme or idea or person or whatever is paralleled to another. |
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| comparison of two unlike things, saying one IS another |
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| ubstituting a word for another word closely associated with it. |
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| the emotional attitude the author takes towards hir subject. |
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*A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
*A dominant theme or central idea. |
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| is putting two contradictory words together. |
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| is a word that imitates the sound it represents |
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| illustrates one or more instructive principles, or lessons, or (sometimes) a normative principle. |
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| eveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory. Two opposing ideas. |
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| the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound. |
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| is giving human qualities to animals or objects |
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| is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds. |
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| a movement with uniform recurrence of a beat or accent. |
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| is rhymed words at the ends of lines. |
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| a literary term used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing |
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| is when one uses a part to represent the whole. |
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| using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. |
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| is the attitude a writer takes towards a subject or character |
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| is the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express. |
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| character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works again the main character |
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| a relatively short narrative poem, written to be sung, with a simple and dramatic action. |
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| a style of poetry defined as a complete thought written in two lines with rhyming ends. |
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1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time |
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A foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable
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The emotional feelings inspired by a work. The term is borrowed from meteorology to describe the dominant mood of a selection as it is created by diction, dialogue, setting, and description.
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Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents.
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trite phrase that has become overused
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An emotional discharge that brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety.
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A common feature that has become traditional or expected within a specific category of literature or film.
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A three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses.
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efers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot
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The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel
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A poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener at length.
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A composition in prose or verse presenting, in pantomime and dialogue, a narrative involving conflict between a character or characters and some external or internal force
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Rhyme in which the last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes.
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(1) a short verse or motto appearing at the beginning of a longer poem or the title page of a novel, at the heading of a new section or paragraph of an essay or other literary work to establish mood or raise thematic concerns. (2) A short, humorous poem, often written in couplets, that makes a satiric point
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The use of authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail
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A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.
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- A long narrative poem;
- On a serious subject;
- Written in a grand or elevated style;
- Centered on a larger-than-life hero.
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A short, poetic nickname--often in the form of an adjective or adjectival phrase--attached to the normal name.
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A basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses.
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from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or standard use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect. (simile, metaphor)
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Poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than the artificial constraints of metrical feet.
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A brief story illustrating human tendencies through animal characters
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A farce is a form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter through highly exaggerated caricatures of people in improbable or silly situations
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| Prose literature, esp. short stories and novels, about imaginary events and people. |
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A type of romance wildly popular between 1760 up until the 1820s that has influenced the ghost story and horror story. The stories are designed to thrill readers by providing mystery and blood-curdling accounts of villainy, murder, and the supernatural
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A unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable
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| in the literary sense borrowed from French painting, a rather vague term applied to works or passages that concentrate on the description of transitory mental impressions as felt by an observer, rather than on the explanation of their external causes |
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Writing in which a character's perceptions, thoughts, and memories are presented in an apparently random form, without regard for logical sequence
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A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone.
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A type of stream of consciousness in which the author depicts the interior thoughts of a single individual in the same order these thoughts occur inside that character's head
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A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress.
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A literary movement seeking to depict life as accurately as possible
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any extended fictional prose narrative focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary characters
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long, often elaborate stanzaic poem of varying line lengths and sometimes intricate rhyme schemes dealing with a serious subject matter and treating it reverently
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- When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length
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When poetry consists of five feet in each line
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A humorous novel in which the plot consists of a young knave's misadventures and escapades narrated in comic or satiric scenes
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A brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work, as opposed to quotation, in which one reproduces all or part of a literary or critical work word-for-word, exactly.
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mitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work in order to make fun of those same features.
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so sometimes used interchangeably with "stave," a quatrain is a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern.
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A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem or song--these lines repeat at regular intervals in other stanzas or sections of the same work.
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sserted that reliance upon emotion and natural passions provided a valid and powerful means of knowing and a reliable guide to ethics and living.
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An arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem.
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A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation
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he author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects.
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A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns
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A serious play in which the chief character, by some peculiarity of psychology, passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final, devastating catastrophe
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Human nature in this philosophy is basically good if humans are allowed to pursue their normal desires in a natural and wholesome environment, an idea that contrasts sharply with Calvinist doctrines
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A short composition showing considerable skill, especially such a composition designed with little or no plot or larger narrative structure.
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| way author writes that makes them unique/ shows their expression |
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