Literary Terms
Comparison using like or as
simile
Wendy, Michael, John
Peter Pan
teenage girl with her friends, George and Bess
Nancy Drew
The Inheritance, Eight Cousins, Little Women
Lousia May Alcott
lured victims to his "Murder Castle"
H. H. Holmes
repetition of the initial sound in closely placed words
alliteration
Flora, Fauna, Merryweather
Sleeping Beauty
221B Baker Street
Sherlock Holmes
The Children of Hurin, The Book of Lost Tales, The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
originally called the Whitechapel butcher
Jack the Ripper
a defined rhythm to the syllables of poetry
meter
Pongo, Perdita, Roger
101 Dalmations
novelist solving crime in Cabot Cove, Maine
Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote
Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, Orlando
Virginia Woolf
bathed in her victims' blood
Elizabeth Bathory
enjambment
Harris, Hubert, Hamish
Brave
Cat's Cradle, The Sirens of Titan, Slaughter House-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
killed victims from the lonely hearts ads in the midwest's Norwegian language newspapers
Belle Gunness
when the concept or grammatical construction of a phrase is inverted in the following phrase
chiasmus
Nigel, Tad, Darla
Finding Nemo
mustachioed Agatha Christie detective
Hercule Poirot
Down and Out in Paris and London, Animal Farm, 1984
George Orwell
Giulia Tofana