1 | sonnet | | _____ | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words |
2 | novel | | _____ | pertaining to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in poetry |
3 | simile | | _____ | an indirect reference to something, such as the Bible or a Shakespeare play |
4 | metaphor | | _____ | a figurative device used for comparing |
5 | rhyme | | _____ | a 14 line poem |
6 | alliteration | | _____ | the quality of a literary work that evoke sorrow or pity |
7 | enjambment | | _____ | a central character who has one flaw but is otherwise perfect |
8 | end-stopping | | _____ | a dramatic device where a character speaks his/her thoughts aloud |
9 | caesura | | _____ | when the sound of a word suggests its meaning |
10 | structure | | _____ | when a line of poetry flows uninterruptedly into the next |
11 | rhythm | | _____ | the use of exaggeration to create an effect |
12 | first person narrator | | _____ | using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect |
13 | omniscient narrator | | _____ | when the story-teller makes reference to him/herself or addresses the reader directly |
14 | unreliable narrator | | _____ | when a story is told from the perspective of a character with the use of 'I' |
15 | self-conscious narrator | | _____ | when the audience/reader know something that one or more characters do not know |
16 | personification | | _____ | where the same word, phrase or line is used more than once to create an effect |
17 | pathetic fallacy | | _____ | a figurative device that endows non-human entities with human characteristics |
18 | objective correlative | | _____ | a figurative device where nature, buildings and such like reflect the mood of the story or a character |
19 | quatrain | | _____ | the representation or evocation of a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it. |
20 | stanza | | _____ | the time and/or place in which a literary work is set |
21 | repetition | | _____ | the art of persuasive language |
22 | Romantic literature | | _____ | pertaining to a text written in the early part of the 20th Century |
23 | Modern literature | | _____ | when there is some kind of punctuation at the end of a line of poetry |
24 | irony | | _____ | a strong pause in the body of a line of poetry |
25 | allusion | | _____ | the kind of story that ends in the graveyard |
26 | characterisation | | _____ | the associations or inferred meaning of a word or phrase |
27 | connotation | | _____ | when words begin with the same sound |
28 | dramatic irony | | _____ | when the events related in a story are not necessarily 'true' |
29 | hyperbole | | _____ | the juxtaposition of two contradictory ideas, such as 'Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!' |
30 | onomatopoeia | | _____ | how a text is built or put together |
31 | oxymoron | | _____ | a long work of prose fiction |
32 | pathos | | _____ | pertaining to a text written between approximately 1785 and 1825 |
33 | rhetoric | | _____ | the methods an author uses to construct characters |
34 | setting | | _____ | the kind of story that ends with marriage and fertility |
35 | soliloquy | | _____ | a figurative device used for substituting a more descriptive, vivid or poetic idea |
36 | tragedy | | _____ | a unit of four lines of poetry |
37 | comedy | | _____ | when a story is told by an all-knowing observer |
38 | tragic hero | | _____ | a verse of poetry |