A narrator who sees, like God, into each character's mind and understands all the action going on

A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale

from their point of view

A created personality, reflective of the author: provides insight from a third person, not a first-person point of view

1. A speech given by one character alone on stage

1. A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world (or the part that the poem is about)

A recurring symbol

Giving an inanimate object human qualities or form

A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself but on closer inspection does not

Words that imitate sounds

Everything else, not literally, that a word suggests or implies.

Standard or cliched character types.

The "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences

having lived (vicariously) through the experiences presented on stage.

A story in which each aspect has a symbolic meaning outside

the tale itself.

1. An address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea

1. A speaker's, author's, or character's nature toward or opinion

of a subject.

A startling or unusual metaphor or one developed and

expanded upon over several lines.

A pair of lines that end in rhyme.

A word's literal meaning.

Word choice.

1. A song for the dead.

1. A character, group, characteristic, or entity that opposes the protagonist

The repetition of consonant sounds within words.

When writing strains for grandeur it cannot support.

Greek for "misplaced in time."

The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene.

A speech (usually a short comment) made by an actor to the

audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage.

An image that dominates and shapes the entire work.

Various techniques used by poems to create sound imagery

through specific word choices to evoke an emotional response, clarify meaning, and/or enhance the reader's experience.

A word or phrase used in everyday conversational English

that is not a part of accepted "schoolbook" English.

When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are

given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation.

The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

A reference to another work or famous figure.

A comparison.

The act or process of analyzing evidence, drawing conclusions,

and developing claims.

The methods, the tools, the "how-they-do-it" ways of the

author.

The physical location of a play, story, or novel, which often includes information about time and place.

An idealized place. Imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity, and peace.

The manner in which an author expresses their attitude

about a subject.

1. A group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose.

1. The main position of an argument.

1. A group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose.

1. A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.

1. Anything that stands for or represents something beyond itself.

A comparison between two relatively unlike ideas using like or as.

A treatment that uses the interior or personal view of a

single observer and is typically colored with that observer's

emotional responses.

The usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more meanings.

The main idea or central insight into life or human nature revealed through a literary work.

In a tragedy, this is the weakness of character in an

otherwise good (or even great) individual that ultimately leads to the character's demise.

A speech given by one character alone on stage in which the character expresses their thoughts or feelings.

The manner in which an author writes, which can distinguish

that author from another writer.

A first-person narrator who is not entirely credible.

Sentence structure; the way in which words and phrases are structured to create meaning.

The demand made of a theater audience to accept the

limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination.

A form of humor that focuses on making fun of society through witty, sometimes dark social commentary; taking things that should be funny and picking on them in a way that raises awareness to ridiculousness and societal frustrations.

The way in which a work is arranged or divided.

The contradiction between what is said and what is meant;

sarcasm

A narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a

camera

The author places the reader inside the main character's head and makes the reader privy to all of the character's thoughts as they scroll through the character's consciousness

A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or or another intense loss

The contradiction between what is expected and what

actually occurs

The main character of a novel or play

A narrator who generally reports what only one character

sees, and who reports the thoughts of only that one privileged character

The main character of a novel or play

A narrator who generally reports what only one character

sees, and who reports the thoughts of only that one privileged character

A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction

An objective treatment of subject matter is an impersonal

or outside view of events

The perspective from which the action of a novel (or narrative poem) is presented

Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect

A pair of elements that contrast sharply. It is not necessarily a "conflict" but rather a pairing

The contradiction between what we as readers know to be

true and what characters have yet to discover

A comparison between two relatively unlike ideas where you call one thing something it's not

A subcategory of literature

When poets mess with syntax

1. The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall

1. A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the

characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast

1. A seemingly ideal world where the actual implementation of

   perfection is unsuccessful and destructive

Latin for "in the middle of things"

When a single speaker says something to a silent audience

An author's use of figurative language, images, or sensory details that appeal to the reader's senses

A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality

Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical

pattern

Something said or written that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly.

The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause

Something said or written directly and clearly

A very long narrative poem on a serious theme and in a dignified style

A type of poem that meditates on death or morality in a serious, thoughtful manner

When the audience knows something that the characters in

the drama do not

Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement

An event or statement in a narrative that suggests, in

miniature, a larger event that comes later

Writing that uses words to mean something other than their

literal meaning

The sensiblity derived from dark novels donk end twisty stories