A special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in intervening sounds

The exact or dictionary meaning of a word

The author's word choice

The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break

The moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or feeling of knowledge after which events are depicted in a different light

Attempting to group words together harmoniously so that the consonants permit an easy and pleasing flow of sound.

Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe

A narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events in order to provide background for the current narration

A character that serves by contrasts to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character.

Use of hints and clues to suggest a future happening in the plot.

A category of literature marked by shared features.

An extravagant exaggeration

A discrepancy between appearances and reality

an understatement in which the affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite.

the substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself

a recurring object, concept, or structure in a piece of literature

All knowing as in its narration, the narrator knows everything about all characters

The use of combining opposites or contradictory phrases or terms in a phrase

The use of words whose sounds echo their sense/ meaning

A statement that appears self-contradictory but that reveals a truth

when the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length

A work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style

The perspective from which the story is told

The central character of a story, the one who initiates the action

The use of verbal irony meant to say one thing, but mean another

A type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in attempt to bring about a change.

Reading a poem in such a way to determine its meter (stresses and unstresses) in a line

A change in movement in a piece from one point, idea, concept, etc. to another; usually signaled by words such as but, then, however.

A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation

The distinctive way in which a writer uses language which includes: diction, tone, and syntax

Based on influence by personal feelings, tastes, opinions, experiences.

When an object, person, place, thing that has meaning in itself stands for something else, usually more complex

Involves taking one type of sensory input (light, sound, smell, touch, taste, vision) and couples it with another separate sense in an impossible way. The resulting figure of speech would end up discussing how color tastes, for example

A part of something represents the whole it may use a whole to represent a part. To refer to "wheels" as a car.

The struggle between opposing forces in literature: internal and external