Dramatic irony

Imagery

________- the sensory details that provide vividness in a literary work and tend to arouse emotions or feelings in a reader which abstract language does not.

Metonymy

________- a figure of speech in which a specific term naming an object is substituted for another word with which it is closely associated.

Motif

________- a recurrent word, image, theme, object, or phrase that tends to unify a literary work or that may be elaborated into a theme.

Iambic pentameter

________- a line of verse having five metrical feet (Shakespeares most frequent writing pattern)

Juxtaposition

________- placing two ideas, words, or images side by side so that their closeness creates an original, ironic, or insightful meaning.

Onomatopoeia

________- words sued in such a way that the sound of the words imitates the sound of the thing being spoken of.

Hubris

________- in a hero, ________ refers to arrogant, excessive self- pride or self- confidence or a lack of some important perception or insight due to pride in ones abilities.

Paradox

________- a statement, often metaphorical, that seems to be self- contradictory but which has valid meaning.

Meter

________ (rhythm)- the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

Irony

________- the term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is.

Hyperbole

________- a figure of speech involving great exaggeration.

Metaphor

________- a figure of speech involving an implied comparison.

Hubris

in a hero, hubris refers to arrogant, excessive self-pride or self-confidence or a lack of some important perception or insight due to pride in ones abilities

Hyperbole

a figure of speech involving great exaggeration

Iambic pentameter

a line of verse having five metrical feet (Shakespeares most frequent writing pattern)

imagery

the sensory details that provide vividness in a literary work and tend to arouse emotions or feelings in a reader which abstract language does not

In medias res

Latin for "in the middle of things"; used to describe a plot that begins in the middle of events and then reveals the past through flashbacks

Irony

the term used to describe a contrast between what appears to be and what really is

Juxtaposition

placing two ideas, words, or images side by side so that their closeness creates an original, ironic, or insightful meaning

Litotes

a figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite (ex

Metaphor

a figure of speech involving an implied comparison

Meter (rhythm)

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

Metonymy

a figure of speech in which a specific term naming an object is substituted for another word with which it is closely associated

Motif

a recurrent word, image, theme, object, or phrase that tends to unify a literary work or that may be elaborated into a theme

Narrator (persona/ point of view)

the teller of the story

Onomatopoeia

words sued in such a way that the sound of the words imitates the sound of the thing being spoken of

Paradox

a statement, often metaphorical, that seems to be self-contradictory but which has valid meaning