| Term | Definition |
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| balance | an element of artistry, related to symmetry, that consists of giving equal weight to different aspects of a work |
| central focus (theme) | The center of a whole arrangement or something that repeats itself at the center of each part of the whole arrangement. |
| image (imagery) | A literary device that presents an object through concrete non literal informing word picture |
| character | a personality, whether human or non human, in a story |
| contrast | an element of artistry in which two things in a literary work are contrasted whether in order to heighten one or convey meaning through the stark difference between the two. |
| lyric poem | 1. In ancient Greece and Rome a poem written to be accompanied by the music of a lyre. 2. A Poem that has the form and/ or musical quality of a song, being written to be sung or accompanied by music. |
| metaphor | a device of imagery that identifies an object in reality with an image though it is understood that the object is not actually the image |
| pattern | an arrangement of parts in such a way that they form a recognizable unit or series of units |
| play | a story that emphasizes performance as its primary medium of expression |
| plot | the arrangement of events in a story such that they have a beginning, middle, and end. |
| poetry | highly compressed language which may be metrical or nonmetrical and characteristically uses imagery as its main medium of expression |
| recurrance (rhythm) | an artistic element in which there is a rhythm to a repeated action- moments of rising and falling intensity |
| repetition | an artistic element in which something is repeated for emphasis or to form a pleasing rhythm. |
| simile | a device of imagery that uses comparison words such as like, as, or more than to explicitly show the reader that an object is being presented as an image that shares some of the objects qualities |
| story | a piece of literature that has at least one character, plot, and setting and uses narrative as its primary medium of expression |
| symmetry | an artistic element which occurs when two things in a literary work correspond to each other in size and or form and/ or arrangement |
| unity | the quality in a plot in which all of the elements work together to tell one story |
| unified progression | an element of artistry in which everything in a literary work is moving forward together towards one goal, without any stray ends or stragglers |
| variety in unity | an element of artistry in which there are both similarities and differences in a group of literary elements |
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