Literary Terms

The repetition of consonant sounds. Consonant clusters coming closely cramped and compressed.

The device of using character and/or story elements symolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.

A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, sucha as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.

The multiple maning, either intentional or unintentional, or a word, phrase, sentence, of passage.

A similarity or comparison betwween two different things or the relationship between them.

A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at eh beginning of successive lines or sentences.

The word, prase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.

The opposite or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite.

A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle.

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

A character, an event, a stroy or an image that recurs in different works, in different cultures and in different periods of time.

The repeated use of vowel sound as in, "Old king Cole was a merry old soul."

The emotianl nod created by the entirety of a literary work, extablished partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of object that are described.

The omission of a conjuction from a list('chips, beans, peas, vine, gar, salt, pepper')

Refers to unrhymed iambic pentameter.

A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics.

A pause, metrical or rheoterical, ocurring somewher in the middle of a line of verse.

A grammatical unit that containg both a subject and a verb.

The us of slang or informalities in speech or writing.

A fanciful expression, usually in the from of an extended metaphor or suprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.

The non-literary, associative meaning of a word, the implied, suggested meaning.

The repetition of consonant sound withing words(rather than at their beginning, which is alliteration)

A pair of line in a verse. It usually consist of two lines that end rhyme and havfe the same meter.

The strict, literal, dictionary definition for a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.

Related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choice, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

A type of poem that meditated on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner.

The effect achieved when hte syntax of a line of verse transgresses the limits set by the meter at the end of the verse.

• oringinally: an inscription on a monument or statue
• now: short witty statement, especially one with two counterbalancing halves such as "Candy/Is dandy/But liquor/Is quicker."

• (1)an inscription in verse or prose on a building, statue tomb, or coin.
• (2)a short verse or motto appearing at the beginning of a longer poem or the title page of a novel.

An inscription on a tomb or grave.

An adjective or phrase describing a person or thing.

A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a general unpleasent word or concept.

A metaphor developed at a great length, occuring frequently in or throughout a work.

Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.

A device used to produce figurative lenguage.