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| ...is a work with two levels of meaning, a literal one and a symbolic one. Where people, objects, places and things represent abstract qualityies. |
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| a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based: the analogy between the heart and a pump. |
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| the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another |
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| the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form |
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| in literature or drama, a character who undergoes a permanent change in outlook or character during the story; also called |
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| a literary character who remains basically unchanged throughout a work |
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| portrayal; description: the actor's characterization of a politician. |
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| something that introduces, usually unexpectedly, some difficulty, problem, change |
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| a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation. |
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| a main character in an epic whose legendary or heroic actions are central to his/her culture, race, or nation |
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| a concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel. |
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| any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality |
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| an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.” |
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| an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, |
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| a tale or short story of the type contained in the Decameron of Boccaccio |
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| the formation of a word, as cuckoo or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. |
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| a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly." |
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| the person or thing embodying a quality or the like; an embodiment or incarnation |
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| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
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