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| Indicates the subject is acting rather than being acted upon. Active voice indicates that the subject is acting—doing something |
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| an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor |
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| a figure of speech that makes a reference or representation of or to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. M.H. Abrams defined allusion as "a brief reference, explicit or indirect, to a person, place or event, or to another literary work or passage" |
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| an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others |
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| An antagonist (from Greek ανταγωνιστής - antagonistes, "opponent, competitor, rival" ) is a character or group of characters |
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| a disappointing decline after a previous rise; "the anticlimax of a brilliant career" |
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| Antithesis (Greek for "setting opposite", from against + position) is a counter-propositions and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition. In setting the opposite, an individual brings out of a contrast |
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Words that are spoken to a person who is absent or imaginary, or to an object or abstract idea. |
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| Information passed along by word-of-mouth but not documented scientifically. |
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| Words and phrases that were used reguarly in a langhuage but are now less commen. Such as the pronoun Thou whish is very rarely used |
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| A temporary depature from a main theme or topic |
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| the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words |
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| particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement |
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| consultation: a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king" |
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| autobiographical - Of or relating to a person's life or an account of a person's life, as told by the subject |
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| A ballad is a poem usually set to music; thus, it often is a story told in a song. Any myth form may be told as a ballad, such as historical accounts or fairy tales in verse form. |
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| influence in an unfair way; "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours" |
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| an account of the series of events making up a person's life |
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| Blank verse is a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. In English, the meter most commonly used with blank verse has been iambic pentameter |
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| use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; "around the rock the ragged rascal ran" |
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