What is the term for the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction?

Which literary device is characterized by the continued use of the same word or word pattern?

using language effectively to please or persuade

correspondence in the final sounds of two or more lines

What is the term for a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary work?

Which literary device is defined as a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things?

a dramatic speech giving the illusion of unspoken reflection

Which term refers to the repetition of the same initial letter, sound, or group of sounds in a series of words?

What is the term for a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction?

What is the literary device that exaggerates for emphasis or dramatic effect?

the act of making something more noticeable than usual

• a narrative poem of popular origin

a short moral story

• the decisive moment in a novel or play

an address to an absent or imaginary person

an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction

• a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

the resolution of the main complication of a literary word

the manner in which something is expressed in words

Which literary device is used to create a musical effect in a literary piece by using a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables?

incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs

a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds

• a statement that contradicts itself

• Brief literary description

descriptive word or phrase

a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

something visible that represents something invisible

balance among the parts of something

the context and environment in which something is situated

witty language used to convey insults or scorn

Not literal

limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text

of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion

a literary work idealizing the rural life

a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow

consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

the story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie, etc.