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| the stress given a syllable in pronunciation |
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| a story in which people, things, and events have another meaning |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds within a line of poetry |
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| a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history |
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| language that gives more than one meaning, that leaves uncertainty as to meaning, alternate meanings to words, and that gives several streams of thought from the same word |
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| present when people have contradictory attitudes or emotions toward the same thing or person at the same time |
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| a comparison of two things, alike in certain aspects; particularly a method of exposition by which one familiar object or idea is explained by comparing it in certain of its similarities with other objects more familiar |
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| a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event which differs from a short story in that it lacks complicated plot and is unified in its presentation of time and place elements and in its relation of a single purpose. |
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| the character in fiction who stands directly opposed to the protagonist (need not be a villain) |
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| a graceless, inept, sometimes stupid or dishonest protagonist who is opposite of a traditional hero. ex: Shrek |
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| a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas; a balance of one term against another for impressiveness and emphasis |
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| when applied to literature, it stands for reason, order, culture, and moral rectitude |
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| literature concerned with predicting the ultimate destiny of the world, imminent catastrophe, and final judgment on mankind |
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| figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), some abstract quality, or a non-existent personage is directly addressed as though alive and capable of understanding |
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| an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotions in the reader since it awakens a primordial image in the unconscious memory and thus calls into play illogical but strong responses |
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