1. Narrative with a second meaning ALLEGORY

2. Exaggeration or Overstatement HYPERBOLE

3. SHORT PERSONAL ACCOUNT ANECDOTE

4. FREE VERSE Poem with no meter, no rhyme, however you want to want to write it. NO RULES

5. Repetition of vowels sounds in a sentences ASSONANCE

6. FOLK BALLAD Impersonal narrative

7. FORESHADOWI NG Inference or hint to the outcome of the story i.e. Aylmer's dream

8. The end of the story DENOUEMENT

9. TRANSCENDENTALI SM Beauty in Nature, Beauty in Individual

10. Figure of speech where something dead or absent is addressed as if it were APOSTROPHE

11. A sad poem ELEGY

12. QUATRAIN FOUR VERSE STANZA

13. PERSONIFICAT ION Anything unhuman given human characteristics

14. Overused Expression CLICHÉ

15. Man vs. Nature CONFLICT

16. LITOTES Understatement

17. METAPHOR Comparison without using like, as, seems, etc.

18. A repetition of a word or phrase ANAPHORA

19. DRAMATIC ESSAY S Walden’s Pond Self-Reliance

20. SARCASTIC POEM EPIGRAM

21. DRAMATIC IRONY When the audience knows more than the character. i.e. Knowing Thoreau still leaves nature

22. Repetition of consonance sounds, anywhere in the words CONSONANCE

23. Long Poem with a Hero EPIC

24. FATHER OF FREE VERSE WALT WHITMAN

25. EUPHEMISM Kinder, more vague way of saying something

26. OXYMORON Words with opposite meaning i.e. Jumbo Shrimp, Honest Lawyer

27. SITUATIONAL IRONY When the opposite of what you expect happens i.e. Winnie Foster not screaming for help with kidnapped

28. JUXTAPOSITIO N Comparing & Contrasting

29. Story ending in death & woe TRAGEDY

30. This year’s TRAGEDY “The Birthmark”

31. VERBAL IRONY SCARASM i.e. flat town called Summit

32. EUPHONY Pleasing effect to the ear

33. METER The Rhythm of a poem i.e. “The Raven”

34. Speaking of parts when really discussing the whole METONYMY Aka. Synecdoche i.e. America Poem by Whitman

35. A reference to something outside the story ALLUSION

36. A comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way ANALOGY

37. ELEGY A Sad Poem i.e. Emily Dickinson

38. END of the Story DENOUEMENT

39. Man vs. Society CONFLICT

40. Man vs. Man CONFLICT

41. Traditional literature CLASSICISM

42. Onomatopoeia SOUND WORDS i.e. BUZZ! POW!

43. Poem of Praise ODE

44. A typical character, action, or situation that represents universal patterns ARCHETYPE

45. A concise statement of a principle APHORISM

46. Repetitions of consonance sounds CONSONANCE

47. PARADOX A Longer Oxymoron; Conflicting choices