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Static character
a character who remains unchanged throughout a narrative or drama.
Lamb
A metrical foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable.
Unreliable narrator
a storyteller who lacks credibility because of bias, deception, inexperience, cognitive impairment, lack of information, or other factor that undermines the accuracy of a narrative.
Denotation
The literal, dictionary-definition meaning of a word.
Assonance
repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry
Narrative arc
the structure of a narrative in which conflict creates a plot, leading to a climax and an ending with a resolution.
Iambic pentameter
a rhythmic pattern that consists of ten syllables per line, with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables. The pattern that emerges sounds like this: da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM.
Refrain
a recurring or repeating words, sound, phrases, clauses, or lines in text to create emphasis.
Antecedent
the noun the pronoun is referring to.
3rd person limited
told in 3rd person, but from one character’s perspective
Refrain
a recurring or repeating words, sound, phrases, clauses, or lines in text to create emphasis.
Digression
temporary departure from the main point or story
Sonnet
a closed-form poem made up of 14 lines in iambic pentameter.
Paradox
A phrase or assertion that appears to contradict itself (but the contradiction itself may have its own meaning).
2nd person
a narrative technique in which the narrator addresses the audience–”you” and the reader becomes a character in the story.
Slant rhyme
near or oblique rhyme. Words within or at the end of lines ALMOST rhyme.
Thematic statement
universal idea+insight that one gets from a literary work
Closed form
specific, prescribed meter or rhyme scheme
Abstract idea
one-word universal ideas (love, courage, destiny, poverty, etc.)
Rebuttal
the refutation of the counterargument.
Foot
a basic repeated sequence of meters composed of two or more accented or unaccented syllables.
Juxtaposition
placement of things side by side for the purpose of comparison
Couplet
two successive lines that rhyme in poetry
Pun
a figure of speech that plays with words that have multiple meanings, or that plays with words that sound similar but mean different things.
3rd person omniscient
told in 3rd person from an all-knowing perspective.