people or animals who take part in the action of a literary work.

Two most common types of archetypes

Femme fatale, damsel in distress, witch, are all examples of what?

When an author focuses on a single trait of a character.

When an author presents a complex, multi-faceted personality in a character.

When a character changes very little over the course of a story.

When a character changes in response to their experiences in a story.

A sudden unfolding in which a character proceeds from ignorance and innocence to knowledge and experience.

Word choice intended to convey a certain effect

The dictionary definition of a word (aka a neutral word with no added emotion)

The feelings and attitudes associated with a word. (either positive or negative)

The speech of a particular region or group as it differs from those of real or imaginary standard speech.

A word or phrase that is less expressive or direct but considered less distasteful or offensive than another.

An accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal.

Words or phrases that appeal to the senses.

The emotional atmosphere in a literary work, usually created through the setting.

The writer or speaker's attitude towards a subject, character, or audience, usually created through descriptions of characters or situations.

Where the author lays groundwork for the reader by revealing the setting, the relationships between the characters, and the situation as it exists before the conflict begins.

This interrupts the harmony and balance of the situation in a novel, and one or more of the characters comes into conflict with an outside force, with his or her own nature, or with another character.

During the plot, these are the events leading to the climax.

This, in a plot, leads inevitably toward a revelation of meaning that occurs at the denouement.

A revelation of meaning that occurs is called this, or an unraveling of the problem set up by the inciting incident.

An internal battle involving contradictory forces within a character.

A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.

The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action.

The quality of a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the reader or audience uncertain or tense about the outcomes of the events.

The perspective in which a narrative is told.

A change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader. Sometimes called a turn.

What elements are required in a setting

The writer's characteristic manner of employing language in their work.

The central message(s) of a literary work. This cannot be conveyed with a simple word or two.

A story with a singular message or meaning that is clear to an audience. For example, the tortoise and the hare with the central message of "slow and steady wins the race."

Words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else.

A form of personification in which the absent, or dead, are spoken to as if present, and the inanimate, as if animate.

A comparison of two unlike things not using like or as.

A metaphor sustained for several lines or sentences or throughout a work.

A form of metaphor in which one thing is applied to another thing which it is closely associated.

A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression.

This occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other.

A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.

A play on words that are either identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings.

A type of comparison of two different things that uses like or as

This is when an author tries to explain something new and strange understandable to their audience.

A form of metaphor when a part of something is used to signify the whole. For example, "all hands on deck."

Stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound.

The practice of beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same consonant sound.

The repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words.

The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of a series of words to produce a harmonious effect.

The use of words that mimic the sounds they describe, like hiss or plop.

The measured, patterned arrangement of syllables according to stress and length in a poem.

The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem.

The varying speed, intensity, elevation, pitch, loudness, and expressiveness of speech, especially in poetry.

A reference to mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing.

A contrast or opposition.

An argument moving from observation about a particular thing to generalizations.

An argument move from generalizations to valid inferences about particulars - or some combination of the two - as its pattern of development.

A logical argument or an appeal to reason.

An emotional argument or an appeal to emotions.

An ethical argument or an appeal to credibility or authority.

When an author directly tells the audience a character's traits.

A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration.

When the audience knows more than the character, or the character says something not realizing the full meaning, but the audience does.

When a situation turns out differently from what one would expect.

When a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite.

A term that describes a pattern or strand of imagery or symbolism in a work of literature.

This refers to the use of devices like irony, understatement, and exaggeration to highlight a human folly or a societal problem.

The use of any object, person, place, or action that not only has a meaning in itself but also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, belief, or value. Basically an object standing for an idea.

The opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is.

A part of Aristotle's rules for Tragedy: the release of emotion from the audience's perspective.

A part of Aristotle's rules for Tragedy: Rules about the time, place, and action.

A part of Aristotle's rules for Tragedy: The tragic flaw that leads to the tragic hero's downfall.

A part of Aristotle's rules for Tragedy: Arrogance before the Gods.

In Aristotle's Rules of Tragedy: This occurs as the hero meets his catastrophe, at which point he recognizes his flaw and the reason he must die.

In Aristotle's Rules of Tragedy: This occurs when the opposite of what the hero intends is what happens.