English

Simile

Describing something using the word ‘

like’ or ‘as’

Alliteration

The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in adjacent or closely connected words.

Soliloquy

A dramatic convention where a character speaks their innermost thoughts and feelings aloud while alone on stage.

Romanticism

An 18th- to 19th-century literary and artistic movement characterized by an emphasis on emotion, individualism, imagination, and the sublime power of nature.

Iambic Pentameter

A poetic meter consisting of five metrical feet per line, with each foot composed of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Epistolary Novel

A work of narrative fiction written primarily through a series of correspondence, such as letters, diary entries, or newspaper clippings.

Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which two contradictory terms appear in conjunction to create a rhetorical effect.