A type of conflict that takes place inside a character’s mind

A type of conflict between a character and an outside group

A character is tormented by natural forces such as storms or animals

The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that contrasts with the literal or usual meaning

The irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected

An audience’s awareness of the situation in which a work’s characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters

The practice of representing ideas or qualities in literature with the use of symbols

An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning

The literal meaning of a word

A person, animal, or object regarded as representing a quality or concept

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie

Brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature

An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature