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| a long story, often told inverse, involving heroes and gods; they are usually very long in length and provides a portrait of an entire culture, of the legends, beliefs, values, arts, and ways of the people. |
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| represents the ideals of the culture that creates it; they have remarkable abilities, such as magical power, superhuman strength, or great courage. |
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| rhetorical technique in which reference is made to a person, event, object, or work from history or literature. |
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| story in which each element (characters, objects, events, etc.) is a symbol. it's a system of symbols that fit together to make an overall ideal/point/lesson. |
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| inherited, ofter unconscious, ancestral memory or motif that recurs throughout history or literature. derived from psychology of Carl Jung - "archetypes oare symbols of humanitiy's 'collective unconscious.' " |
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| a hero that is of high status who possesses personal weaknesses like hubris or wrath. |
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| a central character who lacks many qualities of the usual hero like beauty, courage, grace, intelligence, or morals. |
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| when the audience is led to believe one thing, but the opposite happens. |
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| when the audience knows that something is going to happen to the character, but the character doesn't know. |
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| a comparison between two things using like or as (simile) or in a comparison between two things without using like or as (meatphor); the writer draws out the comparison for a much longer time and is very in depth with their characteristics. |
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| NOT THE MOOD! think of the author: it's the author's attitude towards something that they have written through the language they use or the situation they create. |
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| a comparison between two unlike things using like or as. |
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| a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as. |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
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| rhetorical technique in which an object or person is directly addressed. |
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| grammatical form in which a thing is renamed by another/different word, phrase, or clause. |
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| a character whose attributes, or characteristics, contrast the characteristics of another character. |
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| something said in a story that hints to another event that will happen in the future. |
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| poetry that avoids use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas. |
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| character whose actions are inspiring and courageous. |
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| the difference between appearance and reality. has three types: verbal, dramatic, and situational. |
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| unrhymed poetry that is in iambic pentameter. |
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| when the author uses words to paint pictures in the reader's head. it is used to stimulate the 5 senses: sight, touch, sound, taste, or smell. |
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| consists of five "feet," each containing two syllables, the first weakly stressed and the second strongly stressed. |
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| in a poem, its rhythmical pattern. |
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| the use of words or phrases that sound like the things to which they refer. ex. "pop!","click," or "buzz." |
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| a seemingly contradictory statement, idea, or event. |
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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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| the attempt to render in art an accurate portrayal of reality. |
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| a pattern of end rhymes, or rhymes at the ends of lines of verse. |
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| a speech derived by a lone character that reveals the speaker's thoughts and feelings. |
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| a fourteen-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, that follows one of a number of different rhyme schemes. |
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| a recurring pattern of grouped lines in a poem. |
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| a thing that stands for, or represents both itself and something else. |
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