______________________ is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined.

Pathetic Fallacy is a type of __________________.

___________________________is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.

It could be said that "fan fiction" is a type of _________________-.

Using more words than necessary to make your point is known as __________________. Stueve hates this.

_______________________ is a brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event.

It may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.

An ____________________ is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the work.

"Despite heavy winds and nearly impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely."

The above sentence's main clause (or predicate) is withheld until the end. This is an example of ____________________ structure.

________________________ is use of bare expressions, likely to be ignored or misunderstood by a hearer or reader because of the bluntness. Emphasis through restatement with additional details.

An __________________ could be a nickname or it could be a derogatory term.

_____________________________ is giving human qualities to animals or objects.

"I am Lord Voldemort" is an ___________________ for Tom Marvolo Riddle.

_____________________ is the substitution of an agreeable or less offensive expression in place of one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant to the listener. For example, "He bought the farm," instead of "He died."

The narrator's position in relation to a story being told is known as the _________________________.

__________________________ is the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship.

The opposite of cacophony is ____________________, or soothing and pleasant sounds.

The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence is known as the _____________________.

The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs is known as _________________________.

_______________________ is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim or saying.

The repetition of connectives or conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere is known as _______________________

Master Yoda switches the normal syntactic order of words when he speaks: "Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”

This is known as _________________________.

_____________________________________ occurs when the elements put into pairs and series "go in different directions" because they do not have the same form.

A combination of two or more words to create a new word, such as "smoke" and "fog" to create "smog," is a ___________________________-.

________________________ (from Latin anima, "breath, spirit, life") is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.

________________________ is action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding.

_______________________________ is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.

Specifically, _________________________________ is the describing of gods or goddesses in human forms and possessing human characteristics such as jealousy, hatred, or love.

_______________________ is a character that contrasts second character that highlights certain qualities of that first character.

A ________________ is a figure of speech which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious.

An _________________________ is a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words. For instance: "Imitation is suicide."

________________________ is the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.

________________________ is when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.

The word ___________________________ was coined by Carl Jung, who theorized that humans have a collective unconscious, "deposits of the constantly repeated experiences of humanity.... a kind of readiness to reproduce over and over again the same or similar mythical ideas...."

__________________________ is exaggeration or overstatement.

The literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it is known as ____________________.

_________________________ is the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds, for instance: "Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks."

_______________________ is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.

Simply put, ____________________ is the Time and Place in fiction.

____________________________ is a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses. Examples are veni, vidi, vici and its English translation "I came, I saw, I conquered."

_______________________ is rhyming within a line.

____________________ is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as.

_________________________ is prediction based on a Bible verse or literary passage chosen at random.

___________________________ is the shuffling of the first letters of words to make different words and therefore change the actual meaning of the sentence, or else produce a humorous, non-sensical sound. For example, rather than "I have to blow my nose," "I have to nose my blows."

______________________________ is a story in which the protagonist undergoes growth throughout the entire narrative, generally starting off by being removed or chased from their home. Their growth is often impeded by opposition of their desires by other characters. Also called a coming of age story.

______________________ is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.

________________ is a unified group of lines in poetry.

_________________________ is harsh, discordant sounds. Opposite of euphony.

___________________________ In literature, it's when one theme or idea or person or whatever is paralleled to another.

In a literary context, _____________________________ is the term used to describe the narrative method where novelists describe the unspoken thoughts and feelings of their characters without resorting to objective description or conventional dialogue.

____________________ is a natural pause or break.

In literature, a _______________________ is a magic poetic phrase, a figure of speech, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing. They work in much the same way as epithets and verbal formulae, and were commonly inserted into Old English poetic lines.

_________________________ When a single word that governs or modifies two or more others must be understood differently with respect to each of those words. A combination of grammatical parallelism and semantic incongruity, often with a witty or comical effect.

________________________________ is the method used by a writer to develop a character. The method includes (1) showing the character's appearance, (2) displaying the character's actions, (3) revealing the character's thoughts, (4) letting the character speak, and (5) getting the reactions of others.

__________________________ is an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

_____________________ is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

A type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first:

"There's a bridge to cross the great divide. . . .

There's a cross to bridge the great divide. . . ."

"Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike."

_________________ is the comparison of two UNLIKE things.

_________________ is when one uses a part to represent the whole. For example: "Lend me your ears" means listen.

____________________ is substituting a word for another word closely associated with it.

“For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such

As what he loves may never like too much.”

“On My First Son"

Ben Johnson

“And this same flower that smiles today,

Tomorrow will be dying.”

“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"

Robert Herrick

“When my son lays his head in my lap, I wonder:

Do his father’s kisses keep his father’s worries

From becoming his? I think, Dear God, and remember

There are stars we haven’t heard from yet:

They have so far to arrive. Amen,

I think, and I feel almost comforted.”

“The Hammock”

Li-Young Lee

“Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust;

And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things.”

Sir Philip Sidney

“Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,

Whose flocks supply him with attire;

Whose trees in summer yield shade,

In winter fire.”

“The Quiet Life”

Alexander Pope

“Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.”

“A Prayer for My Daughter”

William Butler Yeats

“And on that cheek, and o’ver that brow,

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,

The smiles that win, the tints that glow,

But tell of days in goodness spent,

A mind at peace with all below,

A heart whose love is innocent.”

“She Walks in Beauty”

Lord Byron

‘Historic’ had turned out to be the landlady’s synonym for ‘haunted.’ Turn-of-the-century sash windows,’ we’d discovered meant ‘pneumonia holes.’

“The Prospectors”

Karen Russell

Jack: (pulling off his gloves): When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Algernon: And who are the people you amuse?

Jack (airily): Oh, neighbors, neighbors.

Algernon: Got nice neighbors in your part of Shropshire?

Jack: Perfectly horrid! Never speak to one of them.”

Algernon: How immensely you must amuse them!

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

“Suddenly his shoulders got a lot wider,

the way Houdini would expand his body

while people were putting him in chains.”

“My Son the Man”

Sharon Olds

“Lee Struck made a funny ghost sound, a kind of moaning, yet very happy, and right then, when Strunk made that high happy moaning sound, when he went Ahooooooo, right then Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing.”

“The Things They Carried”

Tim O’Brien

“Martha was a poet, with the poet’s sensibilities, and her feet would be brown and bare, the toenails unpainted, the eyes chilly and somber like the ocean in March, and though it was painful, he wondered who had been with her that afternoon.”

“They were called legs or grunts…To carry something was to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps.”

“The Things They Carried”

Tim O’Brien