The mention a spot that is most vulnerable; one weakness a person may have is an allusion to

When everything falls apart at the end of a text and there is little to no promise of resolution.

The text's attitude toward the subject of characters of a story or poem or toward the reader.

" We shall fight on the beaches,

we shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall fight in the hills"

(Winston S. Churchill)

One thousand sails pursued Paris when he fled with Helen of Troy.

A fundamental human truth or universal idea explored in a literary work.

A story recounted in part or entirely through letters written by a character or characters.

The associated or implied meaning that a word carries along with its literal meaning

A technique that draws attention to the discrepancy between words and their meanings, between expectation and fulfillment, or, most commonly, between what is and what seems to be.

A recurring idea, structure, contrast, or device that develops or informs the major themes of a work of literature.

The explicit, literal meaning of a word.

He is not unfriendly.

A process of narration in which the narrator is revealed over time to be an untrustworthy source of information.

A word or idea that can be understood in multiple ways; frequently refers to the condition of being obscure or difficult to understand

I have told you a million times already.

The atmosphere of a work of literature; the emotion created by the work (most notably by the setting)

"As Caesar loved me, I weep for him.

As he was fortunate, I rejoice at it.

As he was valiant, I honor him

But as he was ambitious, I slew him"

(Shakespeare Julius Caesar)

A literary style in which the narrator tells the story his/her own point of view and refers to him/herself as I. The narrator may be an active participant in the story or just an observer.

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

A character who illuminates the qualities of another character by means of contrast.

"My love is like a red, red rose." Robert Burns

The ship was crewed by fifty hands.

Bow-wow. Crackle. Buzz. Zoom

A protagonist who is not admirable or who challenges our notions of what should be considered admirable.

A pleasing arrangement of sounds that usually emphasizing the vowel sounds

As hot as the sun.

"A literary style in which the narrator remains outside the story and describes the characters in the story using proper names and pronouns like he, she, it, and they."

When a writer addresses an absent or dead person or an object, quality, or idea.

"Sweet-scented stuff"

The repetition of consonants in the a sequence of nearby words, especially at the end of stressed syllables.

A novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist

An extended metaphor, or elaborate parallel between two seemingly dissimilar objects or ideas in a poem.

The choice of the poet e.e. cummings to dispense with capitalization rules in this name and his writing.

An informal expression, or slang term; acceptable in conversation but not usually in formal writing.

Want to take a ride in my new wheels?

In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus vows to discover his father's murderer, not knowing, as the audience does, that he is the murderer.

My sister is a total psychopath.

The moon smiled down at us as we sat by the river.

A cleaning purification of one's emotions through art

In Wuthering Heights the nightmares Lockwood has the night he sleeps in Catherine's bed prefigure later events in the novel.

A sudden powerful, and often spiritual or life changing realization that a character reaches in an otherwise ordinary or everyday moment.

A horrible creature of the imagination, an absurd impossible idea; wild fancy is an allusion to

A creature or person that is a source of inspiration is an allusion to

Someone who is overly idealistic to the point of having impossible dreams is an allusion to

a person with irresistible hypnotic power over others

Destructively or frenetically violent

poem of 17 syllables in three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables, traditionally evoking images of the natural world

a warning in indication of a future event