Unit 2 vocab

When the action produces far smaller or less significant results than what the reader was led to expect

A protagonist who is actually unheroic

Deliberate use of old fashion language

Speech or comment made by a character to its audience

Emotional tone/background that encompasses a scene

The author's or character's feelings towards a particular subject matter

When writing strains for emotion that it can't necessarily support. 

The use of disturbing themes in a comedy

A lewd parody

Pretentious, exaggerated language; when a character tries to be eloquent by using the largest, most uncommon words

When the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines or sentences