alliteration
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- alliteration
- the repition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables
- allusion
- an implied or indirect reference especially in literature
- analogy
- inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will probably agree in others
- aphorism
- a concise statement of sound in words or syllables
- autobiography
- the biography of a person narrated by him/herself
- beat poetry
- coffessional or protest against conformity
- character
- a person represented in a drama, story, etc.
- charcterization
- the artisitc representation (as in ficiont or drama) of human character or motives
- climax
- the point of highest dramatic tension or a major turning point in the action (as of a play)
- confessional poetry
- when a poet exposes personal or a secret feature about themselves
- conflict
- the opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or a fiction
- connotation
- the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or discribes
- consonance
- recurrance or correspondence of sounds especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence of vowels
- couplet
- to successive lines of verse forming a unit marked usually by rhythmic correspndence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a self-contained utterance
- denotation
- a direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea
- denouement
- the outcome of a complex sequence of events
- diction
- pronunciation and enunciation of words in singing or speaking
- drama
- a movie or television production with chracters (as conflict) of a serious play; can also be within a form of literature
- dramatic irony
- a situation grasped by the audience but not the characters
- epigraph
- a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme
- extended metaphor
- a comparision between two essentially unlike things that never the less have something in common
- fiction
- something invented by the imagination or feigned; an invented story
- first-person point of view
- narratives told through the eyes of the protagonist
- flashback
- a past invident recurring vividly in the mind
- foil
- when a character has certain traits to make the protagonist look better
- foot
- in an established position or state
- foreshadowing
- to represent, indicate, or typify before hand
- free verse
- verse whose meter is irregular in some respect or whose rhythm is not metrical
- gothic fiction
- the predecessor of modern horror fiction and is the source of the connection between "gothic" and the dark and horrific
- haiku
- an unrhymed verse form of Japenese prigin having three lines containing five, seven, and five syllables respectively
- hero
- the prinicpal male character in a literary or dramatic work
- humor
- something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing
- imagery
- figurtive language; mental images
- imagism
- a 20th century movement in poetry advocating free verse and the expression of ideas and emotions through clear precise images
- innocent eye
- a point of view where a naive character serves as the narrator
- irony
- the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
- local color
- the presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants in writing