1.  The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. It is used to emphasize certain words or create a musical quality.

2.  A short, musical narrative song or poem that in most cases recounts a single, exciting or dramatic episode.

3.  The methods used to reveal the personality of a character.  Direct characterization: author describes personality in a sentence  Indirect characterization: suggests personality by characters’ words, actions, appearance, and the reactions of other characters to the person being portrayed.

4.  Emotional high point of the plot or turning point for the main character

5.  The suggested or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition.  Positive, negative, neutral

6.  Dictionary definition of a word

7.  Another name for the resolution to the plot in which the final outcome is revealed

8.  A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people. Dialects may differ from the standard from of language in pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammar.

9.  Conversation between characters in a literary work

10.  Rhyme at the ends of lines

11.  A concluding statement or section added to a work of literature

12.  The author’s use of hints or clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in a narrative

13.  A set of words defined by a means of formal grammar or rules that describe how to form strings form the language’s alphabet

14.  Name for the poetic form used by Greek and Roman poets  Each line typically consists of ten alternating unstressed and stressed syllables (iambic pentameter)

15.  A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor

16.  The “word pictures” that writers create to help evoke an emotional response in readers.

17.  Same as slant rhyme

18.  Occurs within a line of poetry

19.  A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality.

20.  A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things to help readers perceive the first thing more vividly and suggest an underlying similarity between the two

21.  A long speech by a character in a play, spoken either to others or as if alone.

22.  A message conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or an event

23.  To feel or express grief or sorrow

24.  The use of words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning.

25.  Tending to take a hopeful and positive view of future outcomes

26.  A statement that appears to be contradictory but is actually true, either in fact or in a figurative sense

27.  A figure of speech in which an animal, object, force of nature, or idea is given human qualities

28.  Tendency to see only the negative or worst aspects of all things and to expect only unpleasant things to happen.

29.  The sequence of events in a narrative work

30.  The relationship of the narrator to the story

31.  An introductory section of a play, speech, or other literary work

32.  Final outcomes of the plot are revealed…also known as the denouement.

33.  Two lines of rhymed verse that work together as a unit to express an idea or make a point.

34.  Mocking, contemptuous, or ironic language intended to convey scorn or insult

35.  Literature that exposes to ridicule the vices or follies of people or societies through devices such as exaggeration, understatement, and irony.

36.  The time and place in which the events of a literary work occur. The setting includes not only the physical surroundings but also the ideas, customs, values, and beliefs of the people who live there.

37.  A figure of speech that uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things.

38.  An approximate rhyme based on assonance, the repetition of a vowel sound, or on consonance, the repetition of a consonant sound at the end of a word.

39.  A dramatic device in which a character, alone on the stage (or while under the impression of being alone) reveals his or her private thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud.

40.  The anticipation of the outcome of events, especially as they affect a character for whom one has sympathy, uncertainty causes anxiety.

41.  The main idea of a story, poem, novel, or a play, sometimes expressed as a general statement about life.

42.  Affecting the entire world or all within the world, worldwide

43.  A model of excellence or perfection

44.  A generalization about a group of people that is made without regard for individual differences or a conventional character who conforms to an expected, fixed pattern of behavior