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- Alliteration
- Repetition of initial consonant ounds
- Allusion
- Reference to another literary or artistic work
- Anatagonist
- Usually keeps the conflicts from resolving
- Archetype
- a character that typifies abstract qualities
- Assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds
- Atmosphere
- Setting and emotional circumstances
- Catharsis
- audience's purgation of pity and fear for the hero
- climax
- point at which a conflict can no longer build
- denouement
- point at which action resolves
- consonance
- repetition of vowel sounds
- simple
- sentence with one independent clause
- confidant
- character who supports the protagonist
- conflict
- cause of the action in the story
- compound
- sentence with two independent clauses
- couplet
- two lines of verse in the same meter
- declarative
- sentence which explains something
- deus ex machina
- plot device which immediately resolves conflict
- dramatic irony
- when protagonist knows less than audience
- foil
- the main character's opposite
- complex
- sentence with dependent and independent clauses
- exposition
- revealing present circumstances of a story
- flashback
- revealing past circumstances of a story
- flat
- a character who has no complex traits
- dynamic
- a character who changes as a result of a conflict
- foreshadowing
- reveal of future events in a story
- motif
- a repeated image, event, or idea
- imagery
- an emphasis on the sences in description
- imperative
- a commanding sentence type
- indirect
- ana non-explicit descriptoin of a character
- interrogative
- a questioning sentence type
- limited point of view
- narrator reveals only throught of one character
- metaphor
- a tenor's direct comparison to a vehicle
- monologue
- extended scripting for one actor
- mood
- emotional atmosphere of a story
- free verse
- characterized by lack of meter or rhyme
- omniscient point of view
- narrator reveals the thoughts of many characters
- paradox
- seemingly contradictory, but proves cleverly true
- parallelism
- structual repetition
- personification
- implieed comparison with a human as its vehicle
- prose
- sentence-and-paragraph structure
- protagonist
- most sympathetically undergoes the main conflict
- quatrain
- a four-line poetic stanza
- rhyme scheme
- the repeated sound structure of a poem
- round character
- reveals complexities of personality
- static character
- does not change when faced with conflic
- stock character
- mimics a "type" of person
- tone
- attitude of an author toward the story
- tragic flaw
- catalyst for downfall
- verbal irony
- often, but not always, sarcastic turns of phrase
- verse
- structure focused on word level, often line-by-line