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| Greek word meaning "misplaced in time;" an error in chronology |
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| A word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. EX: The principal asked the children where they were going. "Children" is the antecedent and "they" is the pronoun. |
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| When inanimate objects are given human characteristics; unlike personification, it does not require that the object take on a physical human shape. |
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| A short and usually witty saying |
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| Figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman |
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| Repeated use of vowel sounds |
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| A broad parody, one that takes a style or form, and exaggerates it into ridiculousness; synonymous with parody |
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| Division in a long work of poetry |
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| Repetition of similar consonant sounds within words, rather than at beginnings like alliteration |
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| When the audience knows something that characters in the drama do not |
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| When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience |
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| Continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause |
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| When sounds blend harmoniously |
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| Lines rhymed by their final two syllables |
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| Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase |
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| Is complete before its end |
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| Is not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase |
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| Rhyme ending in a final stressed syllable |
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| Word that stands for something else that it has attributes of or is associated with |
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| Coinage; origin of a word |
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| Poem or speech expressing sorrow |
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| Third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees and thinks |
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| Narrator that only reports what would be visible to the camera; cannot report on a character's thoughts |
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| Intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise |
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| Standard or cliched character types |
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| The use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. EX: He closed the door and his heart on his lost love. |
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