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| comparision of two things that are alike |
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| unclear having multiple meanings |
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| breaking it down, analysis |
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| the character who is in the conflict, opposition to the protagonist |
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| Juxtaposition or sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel phrases |
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| most commonly used as a synonym to the word defense |
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| a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying something |
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| repitition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
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| extreme exaggeration, often humorous |
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| growth in character "coming of age |
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circular story line
"coming full circle" |
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| Describes a longing for the past |
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| A sentence that withholds a main idea until the end |
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| A medium or long sentence with is main point short |
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| Literally a mask, the like cover up phopa of the person |
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| Needless repition of a word in a phrase |
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| Needless repition over a longer period of time |
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used in KSL Weatherwatch JKKK
Ghostly counter part of a living counterpart of a living person or an alter ego |
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| Cleansing of the spirit of the sectator (audience) |
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| A synactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series |
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| Short account of an incident |
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| Repition of the same word or phrase at the beginning |
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| Reptition of the word or words or clause or line at the beginning of the next |
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| Anything that is or seems to be out of it's proper time in history |
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| The reptition of initial consanant sound at the beginnings |
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| A long poetic composition |
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| A drama of light and amusing character, typically with a happy ending |
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| A rhetorical figure by which a word is repeated for emphasis with no other words interviening |
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| A series of events that follow a dramatic climax |
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| A piece of literature contained in or carried by letters |
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| A kind of logical argument "if a=b and b=c then a=c" |
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| A syllogism or other arguement which a major or minor premise is unexpressed |
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| Meiosis or understatement |
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| A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue |
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| personification over a LONGER period of time- no personification |
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| Narritive form in which actions have meaning outside of themselves |
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| A story of the rise in fortune of a sympathetic centeral character; basically, a work with a happy ending |
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| a logical incompatibility |
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| a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for the living |
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| A trope that involves incongruity between that what is expected and what occurs |
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| an address, either someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. This device often leaves the speaker the opprotunity to speak aloud |
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| A short poem of lamentation or regret, called forth by someone's death or by a general sense of the pathos of morality |
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| pertaining to ideas, concepts, or qualities |
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| pertaining to ideas, concepts, or qualities |
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| A characteristic of a literary genre (often unrealistic) that is understood and accepted by audiences because it has come, through usage and time, to be recognized as a familiar technique |
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| Home, same: worth, breath |
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| a term applied to any literary work that relies on the implausable events and sensational action for it's effect |
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| "he was just hte man for such a place, and it was just the place for just a man" |
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| Ten ships called "ten sails," gossip being called "wagging tongue" |
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| an assertion of something as fact or an argument |
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| Various divisions of forms or types- within writing, narrative, observation, compare and contrast, cause and effect are all types of genre |
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| The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here |
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| Personification, metaphor, simile, and synechdoche |
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| They have ears but hear not; deep down he's really very shallow- something that contradicts itself however, is true |
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| Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length |
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| the order of words in a sentence is called... |
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| even after she waited inline over night, got rained on, and was in the brunt of her friends' jokes, she did not give up her quest for Shakira tickets" |
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| A pleasant sounding or harmonious combination or succession of words |
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| the literary convention or dialogue and the established body of work on a particular subject |
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| The reasoning process by whicha conclusion is drawn from a set of premises and contains not more facts than premisies |
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