| Term | Definition |
|---|
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words that dont rhyme |
| climax | the high point in the plot after which there is falling action- may coincide with crisis |
| analogy | comparison of two things that are somewhat alike |
| allusion | reference to a well known person, place, event, work of art or religion |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonence or vowel sounds in two or more successive or nearby words |
| antagonist | charater institution group that is in conflict with the protagonist |
| archetypes | premordial images and symobls that occure in literature, myth, religion and folklore |
| protagonist | main character |
| pun | play on words |
| personification | figure of speach that attributes human qualities to an inanimate object |
| onomatopoeia | figure of speach that uses words to immitate sound |
| poetic devices | words with harmonious sounds including assonance, consonance, alliteration repition and rhyme |
| setting | time and place where a story takes place |
| rising action | passing of the plot leading to the climax |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of rhyming words |
| rhyme | workds with identical sounds but different spellings |
| repetition | poetic device that uses the repeating words, sounds, phrases or sentences |
| sensory imagery | languate that evoces images and triggers memory of the five sences |
| simile | figure of speach comparing two thing that are not alike using the words like, as or than |
| elipses | (...) signifying ommision of words |
| falling action | all action taking place after the climax of a story |
| conflict | the struggle between characters and other characters, forces of nature or outside forces beyond their control, internal conflict within a character who struggles with moral choices and matters of conscience |
| consonance | the repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines in the same meter |
| denouement | the falling action or final revelations in the plot |
| epic | a long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or a hero |
| epitaph | an inscription on a tomb or gravestone |
| essay | a short nonfiction work about a specific subject; essays may be narrative, persuasive, descriptive, expository, persuasive, descriptive, espository, or argumentative |
| extended metaphor | a metephor that is elaborated on and developed in several phrases or sentences |
| figurative language | tthe use of figures of speech to express ideas |
| foil | a character who, through contrast, reveals the characteristics of another character |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech that uses exaggeration. |
| irony | the opposite of what is expected. a reality different from appearance |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing. |
| myth | a fictional tale about gods or heroes. allusions to Greek, Roman, Norse and Celtic myths are common in english literature |
| epithet | short, stock adjectives or adjectival phrase that defines a distinctive characteristic |
| homeric (or epic) simile | always uses "just as" and "so"; compares heroic eevents in the story with common, everyday events |
| Agamemnon | king who took over all of Greece and brought every Greek warrior to Troy so he could control the city |
| Achilles | The greatest warrior that ever lived, fought for the Greeks, his mother was Thetis, goddess of the sea, and his father was Paleus, a mortal. |
| Hector | Prince of Troy, greatest Trojan fighter, died fighting Achilles. |
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