54. Metaphor - a figure of speech involving an implied comparison.

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

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

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

58. Narrator (persona/ point of view) - the teller of the story.

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

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

61. Parallelism - when the writer establishes s'imilar patterns of grammatical structure and length.

62. Parody - a kind of burlesque that is a humorous imitation of serious writing. usually for the purpose of making the style of an author appear ridiculous.

63. Persona - the speaker or narrator of a text or poem. Cannot be assumed to be the author.

64. Personification - the representation of abstractions, ideas, animals, or inanimate objects as human beings by endowing them with life-like qualities.

65. Plot - the series of happenings in a literary work.

66. Point of view - the relation between the teller of the story and the characters in it. 67. Polysyndeton - using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.

68. Prosody - the mechanics of verse poetry - its sounds, rhythms, scansions and meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, assonance, euphony, onomatopoeia, and rhyme.

69. Protagonist - the leading character in a literary work.

70. Pun - a play on words; a humorous use of a word that has different meanings or of two or more words with the same or nearly the same sound but different meanings.

71. Rhyme - exact repetition of sounds in at least the final accented syllables of two or more words.

72. Rhyme scheme - The pattern of rhyme. The traditional way to mark these patterns of rhyme is to assign a letter of the alphabet to each rhyming sound at the end of each line.

73. Satire - the technique that employs wit to ridicule a subject, usually some social institution or human foible, with the intention of inspiring reform.

74. Setting - the time, place, societal situation, and weather in which the action of a narrative occurs.

75. Simile - a figure of speech involving a comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

76. Situational irony - an occurrence that is contrary to what is expected or intended.

77. Soliloquy - a dramatic convention that allows a character alone on stage to speak his or her thoughts aloud.

78. Sonnet - a fourteen-line poem, usually in iambic pentameter, with a varied rhyme scheme.

79. Stereotype - a conventional patter, plot, or setting that possesses little or no individuality, but that may be used for a purpose.

80. Stream of consciousness - the recording or worleation of a character's flow of thought.

81. Style - the distinctive handling of language by an author.

82. Symbol - a person, place , or object that represents something beyond itselfie

83. Synecdoche - figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.

84. Synesthesia - the description of one sense using another sense.

85. Syntax - the arrangement of words within a sentence.

86. Theme - the main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.

87. Tone - the author's attitude toward his or subject matter and toward the audience.

88. Understatement - figure of speech that says less than one means.

89. Verbal irony - the intended meaning of a statement or work is different from what the statement or work literally says.

90. Villanelle - poetic form of five tercets and a final quatrain (19 lines).