definition
fable
my car cost me an arm and a leg!
idiom
traditional poetic form with topic material drawn from the often idealized lives and vocabularies of rural and shepherd life.
pastoral
a short novel
novella
"Mr. Speaker. I smell a rat. I see him floating in the air. But mark me, sir, I will nip him in the bud."
mixed metaphor
the repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking
parallelism
My dad will kill me when he sees my messy room
overstatement (hyperbole)
a character who contrasts with another major character.
foil character
an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
parody
a fire station burns down
situational irony
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
metaphor
"alone together" is an example of?
oxymoron
grey's anatomy is an example of?
Melodrama
extended
"Lend me your ears" is an example of?
metonymy
type of work such as detective fiction, epic poetry
genre
"Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -Ghandi
paradox
a term for bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the 20th c.
modernism
the act of using an incorrect word in place of one that is similar in pronunciation.
malapropism
Home alone is an example of?
farce
two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter
heroic couplet
"She's as headstrong as an allegory."
malapropism
20th c. movement in poetry which advocated the creation of hard, clear images, concisely written in everyday speech.
Imagism
stages of dramatic structure: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Freytag's pyramid
"She likes cooking, jogging, and reading. She likes to cook, jog, and read."
parallelism