| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Alliteration | repition of similar sounds. Usually consanants |
| Allusion | a reference to another literary work |
| Assonance | the repition of simliar vowel sounds |
| Blank Verse | verse lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Caesura | hesitations in the rythm that are neccesarily to the scense of the line |
| Characteriziation | when the author reveals an character's personality |
| Conflict | a struggle between two opposing forces or characters |
| Diction | a writers choice of words |
| Hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration |
| Iambic pentameter | the rhytm of poetry. Unstressed followed by stressed syllable |
| Irony | a difference between what is expected and what actually happens |
| Metaphor | a comparison bewtween two things without using "like" or "as" |
| Meter | regular pattern of strseeed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
| Motif | a recurring feature |
| Oxymoron | figure of speech that compines opposite which controdictory statements |
| Parallism | the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are simliar or complimentary in structure or in meaning |
| Personification | when something inhuman is given human-like properties |
| Point of View | a vantage point |
| Rhetoric | using language for persuasion |
| Satire | writing that ridicules people or things |
| Scansion | the analysis of a verse in terms of meter |
| Similie | comparing two things using the words "like" "as" |
| Style | a writers characteristic choice of words |
| Symbol | any object, person, place, or action that stands for something larger than himself |
| Theme | any general idea or insight about life that an autor wishes to convey in a literary work |
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