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a story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning

‘peter piper picked a pickled pepper”

a reference to something in history or another work of literature

“you have to be as busy as a bee to get good grades in high school.”

repetition of certain words

“Go big or go home”

when a pronoun or noun refers to an earlier word

“Ali is a lawyer. She is very smart".”

a central character that lacks the qualities of a hero

the opposite between two things

‘Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer.”

a short memorable expression of truth

addressing an absent person or object as if it were there

repetition of a similar vowel

the feeling, emotion, or mood a writer conveys to a reader through the description of setting

“it was a dark and stormy night”

a coming of age novel

verse without rhyme that uses iambic pentameter

harsh sounds

a break or pause in the middle of a line

a comic that exaggerates traits

purging of emotions in a story or play

the construction of a character’s traits and qualities

character that undergoes significant internal change throughout the story

a character with a deep, layered, complex personality

an uncomplicated character with only one or two traits and has no depth to them

a character that does not undergo change throughout the novel

“all for one and one for all”

a group of words that contains a subject and a verb

speech used in familiar and informal conversation

compares two dissimilar things

a feeling that a word provokes in addition to its literal meaning.

“Guest vs Intruder”

“mike likes his new bike”

a two line poem that rhymes

a word’s literal meaning

an unexpected event saving a hopeless situation

word choice

intended to teach rather than entertain

a double of a living person

a poem that expresses sorrow, usually about death

the omission of unstressed syllables to fit a metric scheme

“I dunno”

a complete phrase ended with a type of punctuation

a continuation from one phrase to the next without a break of punctuation

long narrative poem regarding heroic deeds

a brief quotation at the beginning of the novel regarding the theme

a visionary moment when a character has a sudden realization that changes their understanding

“the Aha moment”

works of fiction that are written in the form of letters

an adjective phrase to characterize a person

a polite word used in place of a word that is direct or unpleasant

words that create a pleasing sound

a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work