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the use of characters or events to represent ideas or principles in a story

-the characters in the Wizard of Oz represent historical figures and ideas

• Allegory

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Characterization

an image, character or pattern of circumstance that recurs throughout literature and thought consistently enough to be considered universal

--wise grandparent, generous thief, innocent maiden

• Apostrophe

• Archetype

• Aphorism

• Connotation

a repetition of vowel sounds. e.g. How now brown cow

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Assonance

• Consonance

a short statement that expresses a general observation about life in a clever or pointed way. –“Sometimes the human heart is the only clock in the world that keeps true time”-“Keeping Time”

• Analogy

• Aphorism

• Archetype

• Flashback

character who is simple, two dimensional, and shallow. Readers do not feel like they get to KNOW a flat character. e.g. the mother in Little Red Riding Hood

• Flat Character

• Foil

• Idiom

• Jargon

Often used in political speeches and occasionally in prose and poetry, anaphora is the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, which uses this device:

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

• Anaphora

• Connotation

• Diction

• Conceit

A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Ambiguity

• Anachronism

the final outcome or resolution of a play or story

• Consonance

• Denouement

• Foil

• Litotes

the repeating of phrases and sentences that are syntactically similar

• Foil

• Motif

• Parallel Structure

• Paradox

a literary work that criticizes human vices and folly with ridicule, scorn; wit, irony or sarcasm

• Idiom

• Jargon

• Satire

• Slang