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| a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes; buzz is a good example |
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| exaggerated language; also called hyperbole |
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| figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements as in "wise fool"(sophomore) |
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| a short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson |
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| a statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true |
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| a work that imitates another work for comedic effect by exaggerating the style and changing the content of the original |
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| a poem (also called and eclogue, bucolic, or idyll) that describes the simple lives of country folk, usually sheperds who live a timeless, painless (and sheepless) life in a world that is full of beauty, music, and love. |
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| or prosopopeia, treating an abstraction as if it were a person by endowing it with humanlike qualities |
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| also called italian sonnot; a sonnet form that divides the poem into one section of eight lines and a second section of six lines, usually following the abbaabba cdecde rhyme scheme, or more loosely, an abbacddc pattern |
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| the arrangement of the action |
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| also called focus; the point from which people, events, and other details in a story are viewed. this term is sometimes used to include both focus and voice |
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| the main character in a work, who may be male or female, heroic or not heroic. |
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| the actual time it takes for a reader to read a work |
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| the practice in literature of attempting to describe nature and life without idealization and with attention to detail |
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| the modulation of weak and strong element in the flow of speech |
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| the second of the five parts of plot structure, in which events complicated the situation that existed at the beginning of a work, intensifying the conflict or introducing new conflict |
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| complex characters, often major characters, who can grow and change and "surprise convincingly." |
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| the marking and analyzing of rhythm with poetry |
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| parallel structure of works signaling a relationship among the parts |
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| a form of verbal irony in which apparent praise is actually harshly or bitterly critical |
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| a literary work that holds up human feelings to ridicule and censure |
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| the time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play |
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| also called an english sonnet. a sonnet for that divides the poem into three units of four lines each and a final unit of two lines. Its classic rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg, but there are other variations |
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| a fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines usually in iambic pentameter |
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| a stanza that consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by a ninth line of iambic pentameter. the rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc |
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| a section of a poem demarcated by extra line spacing |
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| an extreme form of third person limited, which follows the thought processes of a character |
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| special metaphor, similar to a metonymy, except a part represents a whole |
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| a metrical form in which each foot consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one |
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| the third part of plot structure, the point at which action stops rising or begins falling or reversing. Also called climax. |
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| change/turning point that occurs |
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