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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally signifying one kind of object or idea is identified with, or used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them - Jane is an angel

Figure of speech involving a comparison between two unlike entities. In a simile, unlike a metaphor, the resemblance is indicated by the words "like" or "as" – her face was like a mask

figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original. While in metaphor this substitution is based on similarity, in metonymy the substitution works through other kinds of association (e.g. nearness, containment) – Moscow made a short statement

figure of speech in which the association between the figurative and the literal senses is that between a part and the whole to which it belongs – farm hands

uses a concrete term to talk about an abstract thing - their friendship melted away

uses a term usually associated with animate things (living creatures) to talk about an inanimate thing – the leg of a table

uses a term usually associated with human beings to talk about non-human thing – the hands of the clock

the subject of the metaphor, the thing that is compared to something else (literal level)

the thing to which the subject is compared (figurative level)

a link between the context in which a word is normally used and the new context in which it is applied

establishes a principal subject with several subsidiary subjects or comparisons

statement or expression so surprisingly self-contradictory as to provoke us into seeking another sense or context in which it would be true.

figure of speech which combines two usually contradictory terms. It can be regarded as a compressed paradox.

figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated for the sake of emphasis.

a person or animal who takes part in the action of a literary work.

the act of creating and developing a character.

represents a single idea or quality.

is complicated and exhibits numerous qualities or traits.

stays essentially the same throughout the action of a story.

is changed by events or by interaction with other characters.

a writer directly states or describes a character's traits.

a writer shows a character's personality through his or her actions, words, thoughts and feelings, or through another character's observations and reactions.

a series of related events in a play or story, moving from a problem to a solution.

the clearing up of the complications of the plot in a play or story

the part of a play following climax, during which tension slackens

the turning point of the conflict

the part of play preceding climax in which complications occur caused by the conflict of opposing forces.

the opening part of a play or story which presents the characters and the situation.

a stereotyped character easily recognized by readers or audiences from recurrent appearances in literary or folk tradition

a character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist (or some other character) by providing a strong contrast with them.

the most prominent of the characters who oppose the protagonist in a dramatic or narrative work.

the chief character in a play or story, who may also be opposed by an antagonist.

a short passage spoken in an undertone by a character in a drama, usually directed to the audience; the aside is presumed to be inaudible to other characters on the stage.

an extended speech in which a character, either alone or isolated upon the stage, speaks aloud his or her thoughts.

an extended speech uttered by one speaker, either to others or as if alone.

information, not part of the dialogue of a play, given to the actor, director, or reader; this information may be a description of an action, a setting or a character

an agreement between author and audience that a situation or idea will be presented in a particular way.

any work designed to be represented on a stage by actors

the perspective from which the story is told

an outside observer has a full knowledge of the story's events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of various characters

an outside observer has access to the mind of one character only and tells the events from the limited perspective of this character

a story is told by an outside observer who has no access to the mind of any character.

a narrator who, in addition to reporting the events of a novel's story, offers further comments on characters and events, and who sometimes reflects more generally upon the significance of the story.

the narrator tells the story to another character using "you"; the story is being told through the addressee's point of view.

a narrator whose view of the world differs widely from the true situation recognized by the author and readers.

the story is told by one of the characters

depends on spelling (weakreak)

occurs when one of a pair of rhyming syllables is unstressed (alsoo)

occurs when the rhyming words are used in one line of verse.

occurs when there is the identity of the accented vowels and of all consonants and vowels following:
a) masculine rhyme - the rhymed syllables are the last or only syllables of the words in question (round, sound)
b) feminine rhyme - the rhymed syllables are followed by identical unaccented syllables
- double rhyme - only one unaccented syllable after the accented syllable (delightful, frightful)
- triple rhyme - two unaccented syllables after the accented syllable (delightfully, frightfully)

occurs when there is a repetition of sounds made by the final consonants of nearby words. Combination of alliteration and consonance is called 'rich consonance'. Both consonance and rich consonance can be called half-rhyme.

occurs when there is a repetition of sounds made by the same vowel sound in stressed syllables of nearby words (light, wide, sign)

occurs when there is a repetition of sounds made by:
a) the initial consonants or consonants clusters of nearby words (boat, big, bad; grow, grand)
b) the initial consonants in the first stressed segment within a word (aggression, ungrateful)
Alliteration can exist between the initial consonant of a word and the consonant at the beginning of the stressed syllable within another (song, unseen, dissociate)
assonance occurs when there is a repetition of sounds made by the same vowel sound in stressed

occurs when the sounds of words mime or resemble the sounds associated with the thing concerned (cuckoo)

occurs when alliteration is combined with assonance (greatraze)

a group of syllables taken as a unit of poetic metre

metre the pattern is a regular number of stressed syllables in the line or group of lines, regardless of the number of unstressed syllables

metre, the pattern comprises a fixed number of syllables in the line.

metre the pattern is a sequence of long and short syllables counted in groups known as feet.

is the pattern of measured sound-units recurring more or less regularly in lines of verse

may be categorized by the pattern of its metre, lines or stanzas

metre, the pattern consists of a regular number of stressed syllables appropriately arranged within a fixed total number of syllables in the line, both stressed and unstressed syllables being counted.

two short (or unstressed) syllables

two long (or stressed) syllables

two short (or unstressed) syllables followed by a long (or stressed) one – anapaestic metre

long (or stressed) syllable followed by two short (or unstressed) ones – dactylic metre

long (or stressed) syllable followed by a short (or unstressed) one – trochaic metre

short (or unstressed) syllable followed by a long (or stressed) one – iambic metre

two feet

three feet

four feet

five feet

six feet

seven feet

lacking the final syllable or syllables expected in the regular pattern of a metrical verse line

couplet

tercet

quatrain

quintain

sestet

septet

octave

a quatrain of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines rhyming abcb. The metre is basically iambic

a fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter.

also known as the Petrarchan sonnet, is divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba, and a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes.

also known as the Shakespearean sonnet, is organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg.

poetry does not conform to any pattern of metre, lines or stanzas