| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Authorial Intrusion | Discussions directed to the reader and constituting a substantial break in the narrative illusion of reality |
| Epithet | a descriptive word or phrase added to or substituted for the name of somebody or something, highlighting a feature or quality ex) "clear-eyed Athena" |
| Idyll | a short work in verse or prose, a painting, or a piece of music depicting simple pastoral or rural scenes and the life of country folk, often in an idealized way |
| Archaism | the use of expressions, techniques, and fashions from an earlier period |
| Extended metaphor | a metaphor that continues into the sentences that follows |
| Absolute metaphor | metaphor in which there is no discernible point of resemblance between the idea and the image. e.g. "light" as a metaphor for truth or virtue. |
| Active metaphor | one which by contrast to a dead metaphor, is not part of daily language and is noticeable as a metaphor. |
| Submerged metaphor | one in which the vehicle is implied, or indicated by one aspect. Example: "my winged thought". Here, the audience must supply the image of the bird. |
| Implied Metaphor | a metaphor not explicitly stated or obvious that compares two things by using adjectives that commonly describe one thing, but are used to describe another comparing the two.An example: "Golden baked skin", comparing bakery goods to skin or "green blades of nausea", comparing green grass to the pallor of a nausea-stic person or "leafy golden sunset" comparing the sunset to a tree in the fall. |
| Dead metaphor | A metaphor in which the sense of the transferred image is absent. Examples: "to grasp a concept" and "to gather what you've understood" use physical action as a metaphor for understanding, most do not visualize the action |
| Verbal Irony | a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
| Situational Irony | an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
| Dramatic Irony | irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
| Socratic irony | pretense of ignorance in a discussion to expose the fallacies in the opponent's logic |
| Parable | a brief, succinct story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson generally featuring human and not animal characters. |
| Invective | an insulting or abusive word or expression or a railing accusation |
| Melodrama | a dramatic form that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and that exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot or action at the expense of characterization |
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