Diction
The arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language
What is Syntax
A great exaggeration that is created to emphasize a point
What is hyperbole
A reference that serves a purpose
What is allusion
An image, character, or pattern of circumstances that recurs throughout literature and consistently enough to be a universal concept
What is archetype
Repetition of consonant sounds in several words
What is alliteration
A speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object.
What is Apostrophe
Statment that compares things that are not alike
What is a metaphor
Interrupts the chronological order of the main narrative to take the reader back to past events
What is a flashback
Occurs when a higher power (God, fate, the universe) intervenes to create a situation
What is cosmic irony
A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning usually a moral or political one
What is allegory
When a character addresses the audience directly for a moment to express a truth
What is aside
Attribution of human characteristics on a non-living thing
What is personification
Two things placed together that have contrasting effects
What is juxtaposition
Repetition of the same sound or combination of sounds fairly close together
What is echo
Separation of the parts of a compound word or words, usually by emphasis
What is tmesis
A resemblance in sound between two words or an initial rhyme
What is consonance
When a part of something is used to mean the whole thing
What synecdoche
Two lines of a verse, joined by rhyme
What is a couplet
The purification of emotions primarily though art
What is catharsis
The position from which the story is being observed
What is point of view
Attempt to indicate on the printed page through spellings or misspellings, elisions, apostrophes, and signals
What is literary dialect
When a word is linked with one another to the point where it can stand for that word
What is metonymy
The use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases
What is colloquialism
Meditative lyric poem lamenting of a public personage or a friend or loved one
What is elegy
Contradicts itself but contains a plausible kernel of truth
What is a paradox