Super terms
Comparison of one thing to another of a different kind, as an illustration or ornament.
What is a simile?
Application of a name or descriptive term or phrase to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
Word used to modify or describe a noun or pronoun.
What is an adjective?
person in a novel, play, etc.
What is a character?
Interrelationship of the main events in a play, novel, movie, etc.
What is the plot?
Thing conventionally regarded as typifying, representing, or recalling something.
What is a symbol?
Distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.
What is motif?
Detailed examination of elements or structure.
What is analysis?
Event or point of greatest intensity or interest; culmination or apex.
What is the climax?
Art or work of a poet.
What is poetry?
Grammatical arrangement of words. Rules for or analysis of this.
What is syntax?
State of mid or feeling.
What is mood?
Word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other.
What is adverb?
Similarity
What is comparison?
Mental view of relative importance of things.
What is perspective?
Framework- giving structure or shape to; organize;frame.
What is structure?
Subtle shade of meaning, feeling, color, etc.
Refer, esp. indirectly, covertly, or briefly to.
What is an allusion?
Release of strong emotion or tension.
What is catharsis?
Seemingly absurd or contradictory statement, even if actually well founded.
What is a paradox?
Speech made aloud to oneself.
What is a soliloquy?
Can be trusted by the reader, although the reader may not agree with the narrator.
What is a reliable narrator?
Having an obscure or double meaning, difficult to classify.
What is ambiguity?
Elaborate metaphoric comparison.
What is conceit?
Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
What is parallel structiure?