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| any writing in verse of prose that has a double meaning. Extended metaphor for something on a literary level and symbolic. |
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Repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to other. "buckets of big blue berries" |
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| A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature. |
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Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme.
Adjective appears after the noun when we expect it to appear before. |
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| The opposition against which the protagonist struggles. |
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Using opposite phrases in close conjunction
"I burn and I freeze" |
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| act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. |
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An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made.
Archetypes include a symbol, theme, setting, or character that represents common meaning in an entire culture or even the entire human race. |
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| Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words. |
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Opposite of polysyndeton.
Elimination of conjunctions in a sentence. |
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The german term for a
"coming-of-age-story" |
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| Unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing the accents. |
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| An approved or traditional collection of works. |
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"seize the day"
common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most out of life and enjoy it before it's over. |
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| A word or phrase used everyday in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing. |
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| Verse considered to be of little literary value |
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Opposite of Utopia.
Imagined place where everything is bad or unpleasant. |
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| Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative. |
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| Diagram of dramatic structure |
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Character that highlights or emphasizes opposing traits in another character.
Silent bob is a foil for foul-mouthed jake. |
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Type or category of literature.
Poetry, drama, fiction, etc.. |
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aa, bb, cc, dd, ee, ff, etc..
Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter. |
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| Trope of exaggeration or overstatement |
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| commonly used metrical line in traditional verse. |
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| Opening of an epic in the middle of story |
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| Speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or situation, usually involving negative emotional language |
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| a statement that says one thing but means another |
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| a situation in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know |
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| accidental events that occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as the poetic justice of a pickpocket getting his own pocket picked |
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| arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, settings, or words side-by-side that are there for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development |
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writer uses a statement in the negative to create the effect
"You know, Einstein is not a bad mathemetician" |
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Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea.
"the pen is mightier than the sword" |
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| a feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind |
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| Recurring element in a literary work |
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| Act of telling a sequence of events |
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| Narrator reports speech and action, but never comments on thoughts of the character |
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| Using words to represent sounds |
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Jumbo Shrimp
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level |
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Reveal a deeper truth through their contradictions.
"without laws, we can have no freedom" |
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| Governs the reader's access to the story |
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| Confined to what is experienced, thought, or felt by a single character, or at most a limited number of characters. |
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| Material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry |
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| Play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning |
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Art of persuasive argument through writing or speech.
art of eloquence and charismatic language |
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| last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes |
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| word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end of the same metrical line |
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| created out of similar but not identical sounds |
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| words that seem to rhyme when written down as text because parts of them are spelled identically but which are pronounced differently from each other. |
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| Masculine/Feminine ending |
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house/housing
mouse/mousing |
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| line having no pause or end punctuation but having uninterrupted grammatical meaning continuing into the next line |
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| line ending in a full pause by proper punctuation such as a period or semicolon |
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| Attack on criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous, religious, political, moral, or social standards |
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| scanning a poem to determine its meter |
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| location, time, and social circumstances which are significant |
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| monologue spoken by a character who believes he is alone. |
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| minor or subordinate secondary plot, takes place during the major plot |
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| refers to the subject and his or her perspective, feelings, beliefs, and desires |
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Combining two senses that wouldn't normally be able to describe each other.
"blue note" while playing a sad song |
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part of an object representing a whole
"all hands on deck"
"twenty eyes watched our every move" |
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| the orderly arrangement of words into sentences to express ideas |
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| central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work |
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| argument, either overt or implicit, that a writer develops and supports |
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| means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood |
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| short composition showing considerable skill, especially such a composition designed with little or no plot or larger narrative structure. |
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| authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail |
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| The action in a play before the climax |
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| Opposition between two characters, between two groups of people, or between the protagonist and larger forces of nature, ideas, public morals, etc... |
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