The arrangement and interrelation of events in a narrative work.
What is plot
100
When two ideas are directly opposed.
What is antithesis
100
Alliteration with consonant sounds
What is consonance.
100
A character who plays only a minor role, but serves the protagonist as a trusted friend to whom he or she confesses intimate thoughts, problems, and feelings.
What is confidant
200
A poem or speech that praises a person or thing, especially one recently lost.
What is eulogy
200
A scene that interrupts the present action in a narrative to depict some earlier event via reverie, remembrance, dreaming, or some other mechanism.
What is flashback
200
Images, figures, character types, settings, and story patterns that are universally shared by people across cultures and time.
What is archetype
200
Literal meaning or a word or words.
What is denotation
200
A way of speaking or using language or using language that is particular to a geographic region or social group and that varies considerably from the predominant speech and usage within the language.
What is dialect
300
Poetry that lacks a regular meter, does not rhyme, and uses irregular line lengths.
What is free verse
300
The technique of introducing material that prepares the reader for future events, actions, or revelations.
What is foreshadowing
300
An expression used used so often that it has become hackneyed and has lost its original impact.
What is cliche
300
Word choice.
What is diction
300
Conversation between two or more characters
What is dialogue
400
A pair of rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter.
What is heroic couplet
400
when a character initiates a scheme which depends for its success on the ignorance or gullibility of the person or persons against whom it is directed.
What is intrigue
400
Refers to the corpus of images used in text and the language used to convey a visual picture.
What is imagery
400
Pleasing, harmonious sounds.
What is euphony
400
The splitting of a whole into two non-overlapping parts. The term often used to examine conflicting attitudes or behaviors of a character.
What is dichotomy
500
Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
What is internal rhyme
500
A recurrent, unifying element in a work, such as an image, symbol, character type, action, idea, object, or phrase.
What is motif
500
A contradiction or incongruity between appearance or expectation and reality. Can be verbal or structural.
What is irony
500
Words that sound or are spelled the same, but have different meanings.
What is homonym
500
An adjective or phrase applied to a character to accentuate a particular characteristic.