Liteary Analysis

Play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings

Deliberate use of any element of language more than once

Repitition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close in a poem

Use of verbal irony in which a person seems to be praising something but is actually insulting it

Time and place in whic events in a short story, novel, play or poem take place

Change or movement in a piece resulting from a relization or insight

Comparison of two things using like or as

Stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound

Framework or organization of literary selection

Writers characteristic manner of employing language

Quality of short story that makes reader uncertin or tense about outcome

Object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger then itself

A form of a metaphor

Arrangement of workds and the order of grammatical elements in a sentance

Central message of a literary work

Writer's attatude toward a subject using arthors choice of words and detail

Opposite of hyporbole. Irony that deliberatly represents something less than it really is