Poetry
In traditional English poetry, it is often a melancholy poem that laments its subject’s death but ends in consolation.
Elegy
a saying, phrase, or fixed expression in a culture that has a figurative meaning different from its literal meaning.
Idiom
A ________ is a secondary character who contrasts with the major character to enhance the importance of that major character.
Foil
literally means “opposite,” is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect, generally set up using some form of parallelism.
Antithesis
a text can reference literary works including myths and sacred texts; other works of art including paintings and music; or people, places, or events outside the text.
Allusion
a humorous, rhyming five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme.
Limerick
From the Greek for “pointedly foolish,” an _______ is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox
Oxymoron
While characters can change gradually over the course of a narrative, they can also change suddenly as the result of a moment of realization
Epiphany
Reversing the normal word order of a sentence
Inverted Syntax
A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.
Hyperbole
A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and often celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
Ode
The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.
Denotation
an extended speech, usually in a drama, delivered by a character alone on stage; the speaker expresses his thoughts to himself, and it does not involve any other characters.
Soliloquy
A ____________changes, clarifies, qualifies, or limits a particular word in a sentence in order to add emphasis, explanation, or detail.
Modifier
a literary device that attributes human qualities and emotions to inanimate objects of nature.
Pathetic Fallacy
a fourteen-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter
Sonnet
The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the applied, suggested meaning.
Connotation
A ________character is a type of character in fiction that does not change too much from the start of the narrative to its end. _______characters are often said not to have any emotional depth
Flat
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.
Anaphora
the term applied to an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore and is, therefore, believed to evoke profound emotion because it touches the unconscious memory and thus call into play illogical but strong responses.
Archetype
The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation
Enjambment
The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.
Ambiguity
A _______character in a novel, play, or story is a complex personality. Like real people, they have depth in feelings and passions.
Round
Derived from the Greek letter Chi (X); grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words.
Chiasmus
An ______can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. In other words, a more complex thing is explained in terms of the simpler thing.
Analogy