Dress-Ups
An explicit comparison between 2 things, signified by words "like" or "as"
Simile
A long narrative poem about the life of a heroic figure, usually dealing with the struggle between good and evil and including other distinct features like a twelve-part structure, extensive battles, and lists of weapons and armor
Epic Poetry
The angle from which the story is told
Point of View
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
Parody
A literary device composed of the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Alliteration
A poetic name for a person, place, or thing, which consists of several descriptive words often joined by a hyphen. This technique was specifically used in Old English epic poetry.
Kenning
A way of criticizing an idea or person by exaggerating their troubling characteristics to create humor, but with the ultimate goal of producing reform.
Satire
The events or course of action that moves a story along
Plot
A genre consisting of stories that could have actually occurred to people or animals in a believable setting.
Realistic Fiction
Use of vivid, specific, and descriptive language that evokes a strong image or appeals to the senses.
Imagery
Attribution of a human characteristic to an inanimate object or non-human entity.
Personification
A novel dealing with one’s early years or spiritual education.
Bildungsroman
Tensions or difficulties faced by the characters in a story.
Conflict
A multi-staged quest or a journey which leads towards a goal.
Episodic Quest
The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.; day-to-day language.
Vernacular
From the Greek letter chi (X), a group of words or sounds presented and then repeated in reverse. Chiasmus may refer to a combination of sounds, the order of a sentence's part of speech, or a combination of words.
Chiasmus
Novel written as a series of documents usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents
Epistolary novel
A character who opposes the hero of the story
Antagonist
High-culture, chivalric romance, a type of prose and verse narrative which was popular in aristocratic circles of high Middle and Early Modern Europe
Medieval Romance
Repetition of vowel sounds in the final stressed syllable of a line. Assonance is not true rhyme because the associated consonants differ.
Assonance
An indirect reference to another literary work or to a historical figure or event. Sometimes the reference is to a character; other times it refers to a famous line or quotation.
Allusion
A story with two levels of meaning, one that is literal, and one in which the characters, places, and events stand for something outside the story
Allegory
The final part of a play or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together, and matters are explained or resolved.
Dénouement
A realistic story focused upon the ways of thinking and customs of a social class.
Novel of Manners
Repetition of final consonant sounds, typically at the end line of verse. Consonance differs from rhyme in that the preceding vowel sounds are not the same.
Consonance