When a word, phrase, or group of letters used is outdated.

Part of an actor's spoken lines, supposedly not heard by others on stage and intended only for the audience.

When 2 or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds.

The dominant mood or emotional tone of a work of art such as in a play or novel.

The person reading a text, listening to a speaker, or observing a performance.

A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer--written by that actual person.

A type of poetry or verse used mainly in dance songs.

A four-line stanza consisting of unrhymed first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and rhymed second and fourth lines in iambic trimeter.

An inclination of temperament or outlook, especially a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment.

The story or retelling of a person's life, written by another person.

A literary device defined as un-rhyming verse usually written in iambic pentameter.

The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results.

A study of an individual unit, as a person, family, or social group, usually emphasizing developmental issues and relationships with the environment, especially in order to compare a larger group to the individual unit.

A device used in descriptive writing and visual arts where particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated to create a silly or comic effect.

In drama, particularly tragedy, the concluding action following the climax that contains the resolution of the plot.

Noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.

A literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.

A character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.

A group of singers who stand alongside or off stage from the principle performers in a dramatic or musical performance.

The arrangement of things following one after another in time.

An expression that has been overused to the extent that it loses its original meaning or novelty.

In composition and speech, the arrangement of details or ideas in order of increasing importance or force: the principle of saving the best for last.

That particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point.

The use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing.

A play, movie, or written work of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion.

The use of humour to lighten the mood of a serious or tragic story, especially in plays.

Analyze a topic by looking at how they are alike and how they are different.

A literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.

Emotional associations and overtones related to a word.

The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of closely associated syllables or words.

Refers to the difference between two things that are being compared.

A literary device which can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse and has the same meter to form a complete thought.

The literal meaning of a word as seen in the dictionary.

A literary device which can be defined as the resolution of the issue of a complicated plot in fiction.

Portrays people, places, things, moments and theories with enough vivid detail to help the reader create a mental picture.

The language used by the people of a specific area, class, district or any other group of people.

True or False: Dialogue is a conversation between two or more persons.

A style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.

A literary work that, in addition to being entertaining, also teaches a moral lesson.

A situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.

Authors present straight out, by exposition or analysis, what a character is like, or has someone else in the story tell what she is like.

A disruption of harmonic sounds or rhythms.

A composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play.

When the author shares with the reader information not known to the character/characters.

Character who undergoes an important inner change, or has a change in personality or attitude.

A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

Manipulation of a person's emotions in order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence.

Noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style.

Adds a little insight to some interesting developments that happen once the major plot is over.

A moment of significant realization for a character, usually at or near the end of a story.

A short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.

True or False: An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument about the person buried at that site.

Mild expression used to describe an otherwise offensive word or topic.

Musical/pleasant sounds placed together for effect.

Providing evidence from someone who is believed to have special knowledge.

Writing or speech primarily intended to convey information or to explain; a detailed statement or explanation.

A metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem.

A short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters.

A highly exaggerated or improbable story.

A light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.

Saying something other than what is literally meant for effect.

The viewpoint of a character writing or speaking directly about themselves.

A literary device wherein the author depicts the occurrence of specific events to the reader, which have taken place before the present time the narration is following.

An easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated (developed) but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.

Refers to the use of indicative word or phrases and hints that set the stage for a story to unfold and give the reader a hint of something that is going to happen without revealing the story or spoiling the suspense.

One or more small stories within the body of a larger story.

Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.

An exaggeration and overemphasis.

An expression that makes sense as a whole phrase but loses its meaning out of context.

The author uses words and phrases to create "mental pictures" for the reader.

The speaker is showing the character's actions, or words, through dialogue or another character's dialogue.

Rhyming of words within a line of poetry.

Playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning.

The language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group.

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts.

Shows what one character feels and thinks, but from the perspective of an outsider. "He" or "She" is how this person refers to other characters.

It means exactly what is said.

A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world.

Direct comparison between objects; saying one thing is another thing.

The regular use of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

Any composition, as a poem, in which a single person speaks.

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

A story; has a plot, conflict, characters, setting, and a point of view.

Reports or shows the action without including personal or subjective comments or judgments.

A lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.

The narrator is capable of knowing, telling, and seeing all.

A word whose sound suggests its meaning.

Contradictory, contrasting concepts placed together in a manner that actually ends up making sense in a strange, and slightly complex manner.

The use of concepts or ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together hold significant value on several levels.

Method of comparing two ideas in which each is developed in the same grammatical structure.

A humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing.

Portraying or suggesting idyllically the life of shepherds or of the country, as a work of literature, art, or music.

Focuses on the writer as the subject

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

Attempts to convince reader to take a course of action or adopt the writer's position on an issue.

Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.

A play on words.

A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.

True or false: Repetition is the act or an instance of repeating; reiteration.

A question that implies that the answer is obvious.

A word agreeing with another in terminal (end) sound:

The pattern of recurrent strong and weak accents, vocalization and silence, and the distribution and combination of these elements in speech.

Events leading up to the climax.

A character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully portrayed and developed by the author.

A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.

Comparisons between two unrelated and dissimilar things, people, beings, places and concepts using like or as.

Words that are not generally acknowledged as correct English, but are used often.

An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present.

14 line poem

True or False: Stream of consciousness is when a character's thoughts or perceptions are presented as occurring in random form, without regard for logical sequences, syntactic structure, or distinctions between various levels of reality.

A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end.

A generalized belief about a group of people.

A character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.

Central idea of a work of literature.

Summarizes main ideas for writing.

Someone on the outside is looking in and telling the story as he/she see it unfold.

The perspective or attitude that the author adopts with regards to a specific character, place or development.

A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow.

A statement that lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant.

Intellectual humour, based on manipulation of concepts, typically in conversation and spontaneously.