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| A reference to a well known person, place, or event, or work of art |
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| A person who is working against the protagonist within the story |
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| A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
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| Is a descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures within the readers mind; usually dealing with the senses |
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| Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as if it is something else |
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| A Greek root word meaning suffering |
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| The main character in a work of literature that the audience would like to see succeed; the hero of the story |
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| The time, place, and action of a literary work |
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| Is anything that stands for or represents something else |
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| Is the use in literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
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| Is a comparison of two or more similar objects, suggesting that they are alike in certain aspects they will also be alike in other ways as well |
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| Is a short account of an interesting event used to make a point |
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| Is putting yourself in someone else's place and imagining how that person must have felt |
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| Refers to a category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content |
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| Is the recording of events or situations as they have been impressed upon the mind |
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| Is using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning |
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| Is a statement that seems contrary to common sense, yet may in fact be true |
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| Giving human like qualities to something that is not human |
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| Is literature that attempts to represent life as it really is |
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| Is the general impression a literary work leaves on the reader |
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| Is a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea or generalization about life; all allegories often have a strong moral lesson |
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| Is literature in which human errors or problems appear funny; end on a happy note |
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| Is the problem or struggle in a story that triggers the action; there are five types of conflict: person vs person, person vs society, person vs self, person vs nature, person vs fate |
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| Literature instructs or presents a moral or religious statement |
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| Is a literary tone used to make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting or changing the subject of the attack |
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| The speech of the common people; often used loosely today to refer to dialogue or to writing in general that uses colloquial, dialectical, or slang expressions |
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| Is the use of informal language |
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| Is a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
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| Is a lyrical poem written in three line stanza's ending in four |
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| Is the emotion created in the reader by part or all of a literary work |
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| adj. Supportive; encouraging; helping to bring about |
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| adj. Unable to be conquered |
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| adj. Irritable or short-tempered |
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| adj. Extended in time; prolonged |
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| adj. Limited in knowledge of the world; narrow-minded |
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| adj. Brief and straightforward |
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| n. The best or most typical example |
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| n. Minor violation of a rule or law |
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| adj. Paying strict attention to detail; extremely careful |
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| adj. Stinging or biting, especially in taste or smell |
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| v. To force or strongly persuade; coerce |
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| adj. Downcast or sad; depressed |
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| n. An agent sent on a mssion |
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| n. A sudden, involuntary urge to do something |
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| n. A recurring theme, subject or idea |
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| v. To discuss something with someone else, consult; to bestow |
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| v. To put aside until late; to yield respectfully |
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| v. To depart, especially from a path or plan |
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| v. To increase greatly in number; multiply |
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| adj. Claimed as true, but probably false |
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| v. To imagine; to conceive of |
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| n. A moment of great insight; revelation |
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| adj. Contemplative one's own thoughts and feelings |
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| adj. Looking backward over a period of time |
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| n. A person who flatters; a yes-man |
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| adj. Devoted to sensual pleasure; lacking oral restraint |
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| adj. Not able to be understood; nonsensical |
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| adj. Determined; steadfast |
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| n. An act against a holy person or place |
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| adj. Skilled at; highly knowledgable of |
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