| Definition | Term |
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| Understatement (often used with Meiosis). | |
| Sudden/powerful realization. | |
| Serious lyric poem that is usually long, and uses a metrical structure. | |
| A speech by a lone character. | |
| Brooding/mysterious setting and plot in a novel. | |
| Unrhymed iambic pentameter (same flow as speech). | |
| Excessive pride. | |
| Tragic flaw. | |
| A part of an entity used to describe the whole. (my wheel->my car) | |
| Narrator who says that the narration is fiction. | |
| Narrator's attitude. | |
| A boy who kills his father in order to marry his mother has this complex. | |
| Direct address to an absent or dead person, object, quality, or idea. | |
| Arrangement of words. | |
| Final resolution of a plot. | |
| | Definition | Term |
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| Literal meaning corresponds w/ symbolic meaning. | |
| Narrator who evaluates characters and expresses opinion. | |
| Intentional understatement . | |
| A character who highlights the personality of an opposing character. | |
| Short speech audible to audience but not to other characters. | |
| Emotional release. | |
| Revealed over time to be an untrustworthy source of information. | |
| Novel which refers to the process of writing the novel. | |
| Substitution of one term for another that is generally associated with it. (suits->buisnessmen) | |
| Conscious exaggeration. | |
| Choice of words. | |
| Initial presentation of background information. | |
| Reference w/in literature to historical or literary person, place, or event. | |
| Moment of recognition or discovery. | |
| Reoccurring idea, feeling, etc. that informs a major theme. | |
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