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| literary reference to a person, place, thing or event that is familiar |
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| story in which people, things or actions represent an idea or generalization about life; usually having a strong moral or lesson |
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| a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning |
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| when the reader or audience sees the characters mistake but the character does not |
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| where the author means one thing but says another |
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| refers to an implication of alternate or reversed meaning that pervades a work (unreliable narrator) |
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| refers to an implied worldview in which characters are led to embrace false hopes of aid or success only to be defeated by a larger force like God or fate |
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| when dramatic irony occurs in a tragedy |
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| the use of words to create a picture in the readers mind based on sensory details |
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| literature that attempts to represent life as it really is; when the author uses exact detail of the way of life (exact detail to describe life) |
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| literary movement with emphasis on imagination and emotions |
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| a statement about life the the writer is trying to get across in a peice of writing; usually implied and not spelled out |
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| the overall feeling or effect created by the writers use of words (ex: humorous, satiric or serious) |
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| an unrhymed form of poetry; each line normally consists of ten syllables in which every other syllable is stressed |
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| a rhyming of words that appears at the end of two or more lines of poetry |
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| occurs when the words rhyming appear in the same line of poetry |
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| a repetition of initial consonants, sounds and words |
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| often repeated idea or theme in literature |
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