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Question | Answer |
The repetition of a consonant sound in the first syllable of a series of words: "Peper picked pickled peppers" | Alliteration |
Either when characters or plot elements represent ideas; or when one thing is a metaphor of another completely unrelated to it | Allegory |
Makes reference to a place or person or thing, either directly or by implication; it is often up to the reader to make the connection explicitly. | Allusion |
Describing an inanimate or non-human object by reference to human characteristics | Anthropomorphism (personification) |
The repetition of a vowel sound to create internal rhymes either within or between words or sentences: "proud round cloud" | Assonance |
The omission of conjunctions from a series of clauses: "without looking, without making a sound, without talking" | Asyndeton |
A pause on a line of poetry | Caesura |
An extended metaphor, governing the logic of an entire passage or work: "This flea is you and I (...)" -- often surprising/shocking | Conceit |
Carry-on lines; the continuation of a syntactic unit over a line break, signified by the absence of punctuation | Ejambment |
The opposite of enjambment; the indication of syntactic closure at the end of a line by punctuation | End-stopping |
Exaggeration | Hyperbole |
To evoke a visual experience for the reader | Imagery |
Simple repeating of words | Repetition |
Describing something by asserting that it is similar in some way to something else, unconnected to it | Metaphor |
When a thing is not called by its own name, but rather by the name of something associated with it | Onomatopoeia |
The combination of contradictory temrs. Linked to paradox | Oxymoron |
Juxtaposition of contradictory terms designated to create insight from the contrast | Paradox |
Representing a thing through a symbol | Symbolism |
A flashback | Analepsis |
An anti-climax | Bathos |
A plot that resolves difficult issues in one immediate way (sometimes unrealistically) | Deus ex machina |
A trope when a character comes to a sudden realization accompanied by strong emotions, often transcendral. (In modernism, these are often bathetic) | Epiphany |
A stroy which frames another story; a-story-within-a-story | Hypodiegesis |
When a plot begins in the middle of the action, presupposing a history leading up to these events | In medias res |
Treatment of an inanimate object as if it had human emotions (especially with the weather) | Pathetic fallacy |
Emotional appeal | Pathos |
Flasforward | Prolepsis |
Where the shortcomings of people or a society are held up to ridicule (using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule) | Satire |
The narrative mode that attempts to capture a subject's internal thought process | Steam of consciousmess |
Imitation | Mimesis |
Emotional purging: that experience of horror or pleasure gained through literature | Catharsis |
The 'fall' in drama, often the tragic descent of the character or their fortunes | Peripeteia |
Self-knowledge: the realization of the character as to their own issues or tragic flaw. (Related to epiphany) | Anagnorisis |
Tragic flaw: a personal error in a protagonist’s personality that brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy. | Harmartia |
Incongrunity between literal and implied meaning | Irony |
When the reader has information the character does not | Dramatic irony |
Placing two things close to one another | Juxtaposition |
A work or character which imitates and mocks another | Parody |
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