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| abstract style is complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points |
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| style that means dry and theoretical writing, sucks all the life out of its subject with analysis |
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refers to the stressed portion of a word
"To be, or not to be"-"be" and "not" |
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| "appealing to the senses," artistic judgment |
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| story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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reference to another work or famous figure
classical-Greek and Roman mythology
topical-current event
popular-from popular culture |
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| comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts and are employed to clarify an action or a relationship |
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| the word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun refers to or replaces. in "The principle asked the children where they were going," "they" is the pronoun and "children" is the antecedent |
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| when inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation |
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| occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect |
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| a protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of unsavory qualities |
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| an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea |
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| the use of deliberately old-fashioned language |
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| a speech made by an actor to the audience |
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| a trait or characteristic |
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| the repeated use of vowel sounds, as in, "Old king Cole was a merry old soul." |
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| long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme |
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pathos-evoking feelings of dignified pity and sympathy
bathos-writing that strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup |
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| using disturbing themes in comedy |
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| pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language |
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| using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds |
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the beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense
ex. iambic pentameter |
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