That has Character
a person in a short story, novel, drama, or narrative poem
Character
visual description used in literature
Imagery
a fundamental, meaningful idea explored in a literary work
Theme
a rhetorical device that employs the use of an overarching ideology or idea in order to appeal to or persuade an audience
Ethos
similar sounds at the ends of lines of poetry
Rhyme
a character in a literary work who works against the main character, or protagonist, in some way
Antagonist
a type of figurative language that compares something to something it differs from and, in doing so, points out similarities
Metaphor
the struggle, interior or exterior, that the protagonist of a literary work confronts
Conflict
a rhetorical device that employs the use of logic to appeal to or persuade an audience
logos
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Meter
the main character in a text
Protagonist
a subtle suggestion about what is going to happen
Foreshadow
the moment in a plot when the tension is highest
Climax
a rhetorical device that employs the use of emotions as a way to appeal to or persuade an audience
Pathos
unrhymed poetry with a regular meter
Blank Verse
The person who tells the story, but does not take part in the story
Narrator
a figure of speech in which natural things or animals have human qualities
Personification
the expression of words or ideas opposed to what is literally meant or expected
irony
the use of grossly overstated language to emphasize a characteristic of something or someone
Hyperbole
repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Alliteration
instantly recognizable and recurring symbols, persons, places, or things in a piece of literature; archetypes include tragic heroes, clowns, wise men/sages, and evil forces
Archetype
Something in literature applies to a word or object used to signify another object or event that is associated usually by resemblance
Symbolism
the circumstances surrounding an event that are unique to the time and place of the event
Context
the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures that are used to emphasize and express similar or related ideas or ideas of equal importance. (also known as parallelism)
Parallel Structure
a poem of one stanza with fourteen lines and using iambic pentameter when written in English
Sonnet