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| a word or phrase that names something that can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled. The images in a literary work are referred to, collectively, as the work's imagery. |
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| a comparison using like or as |
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| a figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing is described as if it were a person |
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| study of ways in which speech and writing affect or influence audiences |
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| extraordinary but literal use of language to achieve a particular effect on audience |
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| (atmosphere) emotion created in reader by part of all of a literary work |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| any word or phrase that repeats or refers to something that proceeds/follows it |
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| story of a person's life written by that person |
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| short saying or pointed statement |
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| use of literary techniques to create a character. (direct description, portrayal of characters' behavior, and representations of characters' internal states) |
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| multiple stories presented as one |
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| a thing that stands for or represents both itself and something else |
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| a long formal poem about death or loss |
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| a point-by-point presentation of one thing as though it were another |
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| primary purpose that his or her work is meant to achieve |
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| the emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a literary work |
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| Stalk character (stereotype) |
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| an uncritically accepted fixed or conventional idea, particularly such an idea held about whole groups of people/character who doesn't deviate from conventional expectations of such a character |
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