Literary Review

The depiction of fate or the universe as malicious or indifferent to human suffering, creating a painful contract between our purposeful activity and its (in this context) ultimate meaningless.

• Situational Irony

• Cosmic Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Ironing

The mention a spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have is an allusion to

• Aeolian

• Hector

• Achilles' Heel

• Halcyon

When everything falls apart at the end of a text and there is little to no promise of resolution.

• denouement

• falling action

• catastrophe

• verbal irony

The text's attitude toward the subject of characters of a story or poem or toward the reader.

• mood

• tone

• narrative perspective

• symbol

" We shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills"

(Winston S. Churchill)

• anaphora

• mesodiplosos

• antanclasis

• dicope

One thousand sails pursued Paris when he fled with Helen of Troy.

• epic simile

• metaphor

• synecdoche

• tragic diction

A fundamental human truth or universal idea explored in a literary work.

• argument

• colonialism

• subject

• theme

A story recounted in part or entirely through letters written by a character or characters.

• indirect characterization

• correspondia

• epistolary

• alphabetia

The associated or implied meaning that a word carries along with its literal meaning

• situational irony

• denotation

• connotation

• aberration

A technique that draws attention to the discrepancy between words and their meanings, between expectation and fulfillment, or, most commonly, between what is and what seems to be.

• mimesis

• reductionism

• pathetic fallacy

• irony