Narrative with a second meaning ALLEGORY
Exaggeration or Overstatement HYPERBOLE
SHORT PERSONAL ACCOUNT ANECDOTE
FREE VERSE Poem with no meter, no rhyme, however you want to want to write it. NO RULES
Repetition of vowels sounds in a sentences ASSONANCE
FOLK BALLAD Impersonal narrative
FORESHADOWI NG Inference or hint to the outcome of the story i.e. Aylmer's dream
The end of the story DENOUEMENT
TRANSCENDENTALI SM Beauty in Nature, Beauty in Individual
Figure of speech where something dead or absent is addressed as if it were APOSTROPHE
A sad poem ELEGY
QUATRAIN FOUR VERSE STANZA
PERSONIFICAT ION Anything unhuman given human characteristics
Overused Expression CLICHÉ
Man vs. Nature CONFLICT
LITOTES Understatement
METAPHOR Comparison without using like, as, seems, etc.
A repetition of a word or phrase ANAPHORA
DRAMATIC ESSAY S Walden’s Pond Self-Reliance
SARCASTIC POEM EPIGRAM
DRAMATIC IRONY When the audience knows more than the character. i.e. Knowing Thoreau still leaves nature
Repetition of consonance sounds, anywhere in the words CONSONANCE
Long Poem with a Hero EPIC
FATHER OF FREE VERSE WALT WHITMAN
EUPHEMISM Kinder, more vague way of saying something
OXYMORON Words with opposite meaning i.e. Jumbo Shrimp, Honest Lawyer
SITUATIONAL IRONY When the opposite of what you expect happens i.e. Winnie Foster not screaming for help with kidnapped
JUXTAPOSITIO N Comparing & Contrasting
Story ending in death & woe TRAGEDY
This year’s TRAGEDY “The Birthmark”
VERBAL IRONY SCARASM i.e. flat town called Summit
EUPHONY Pleasing effect to the ear
METER The Rhythm of a poem i.e. “The Raven”
Speaking of parts when really discussing the whole METONYMY Aka. Synecdoche i.e. America Poem by Whitman
A reference to something outside the story ALLUSION
A comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way ANALOGY
ELEGY A Sad Poem i.e. Emily Dickinson
END of the Story DENOUEMENT
Man vs. Society CONFLICT
Man vs. Man CONFLICT
Traditional literature CLASSICISM
Onomatopoeia SOUND WORDS i.e. BUZZ! POW!
Poem of Praise ODE
A typical character, action, or situation that represents universal patterns ARCHETYPE
A concise statement of a principle APHORISM
Repetitions of consonance sounds CONSONANCE
PARADOX A Longer Oxymoron; Conflicting choices