4th. set of 21 (64-84)

Protagonist

The main character in a drama or literary work.

Pun

Play on words

Resolution

Solution to the conflict in literature.

Rhyme

the repetition of sounds in words

Rhyme scheme

The act of assigning letters in the alphabet to demonstrate the rhyming lines in a poem.

Rising action

The events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax.

Rites of passage

An incident which creates tremendous growth signifying a transition from adolescence to adulthood.

Round character

A character who is developed over the course of the book

Satire

A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony

Simile

A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are explicitly compared

Slang

A kind of language occurring chiefly in casual and playful speech

Soliloquy

A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener. Typical in plays.

Sonnet

A poem with fourteen lines. An Italian sonnet subdivides into two quatrains and two tercets; while an English sonnet subdivides into three quatrains and one couplet.

Style

The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression

Symbolism

Something that represents something else by association

Synecdoche

When part of something is used to represent the whole.

Syntax

the way words are put together in a sentence to affect the tone or meaning of the sentence.

Tone

Reflects how the author feels about the subject matter or the feeling the author wants to instill in the reader.

Tragedy

A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow

Voice

refers to the tone

Understatement

a figure of speech where something is deliberately represented as less important