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| A word free from limitations or qualifications (best, all, perfect) |
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| When a part of a word, phrase, or sentence is spoken with greater force or stronger tone |
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| A familiar proverb or wise saying |
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| To the man; appealing to personal interest, prejudices, or emotions rather than to reason; an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue |
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| A literary work with two or more levels of meaning: one literal level and one or more symbolic levels. The events, settings, objects or characters in an allegory stand for ideas of qualities beyond themselves (Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of a spiritual journey) |
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| The repetition of an individual consonant sound of several words in a group. It is often used in poetry to emphasize and to link the words as well as create pleasing musical sounds. |
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| A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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| The intentional or unintentional expression of a word or idea that implies more than one meaning and usually leaves uncertainty in the reader. A statement that contains two or more meanings. |
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| Anything out of its proper time (like an airplane in the Odyssey) |
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| Repeating the end of a word of a clause as the beginning of the next one: "Pleasure might cause her to read, reading might cause her to know..." |
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| The arrangement of the letters in a word or phrase to make another word or phrase. |
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| A comparison mad between two objects, situations, or ideas, that are somewhat alike but are unalike in most respects. |
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| The process of studying the whole by examining its parts. |
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| The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs. |
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| A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event. |
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| A character or force in conflict with the main character in a literary work. |
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| Means going before or preceding; is also a word, phrase, or clause that a relative pronoun refers to. |
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| Is often used deliberately for comic effect to create an ironical letdown by descending from a noble tone or image to a trivial or ludicrous one. |
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| A protagonist who lacks traditional heroic virtues and noble qualities and is sometimes inept, cowardly, stupid, or dishonest yet sensitive. |
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| A strong feeling of aversion or opposition. |
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| A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced; a figure of speech in which contrasting or paradoxical ideas are presented in parallel form: to err is human, to forgive divine. |
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| A general truth or observation about life, usually stated concisely and pointedly. It can be witty or wise, such as: Francis Bacon: "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." |
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| Where a speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea. It is often used in poetry and in speeches to add emotional intensity, such a Percy Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind." (addresses the wind). |
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| An image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature, myth, religion, or folklore, and is therefore believed to evoke profound emotions in the reader because it awaken a primordial image in the unconscious memory. |
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| A set of logically related statements consisting of a conclusion and one or more premises. The premises are the reasons for accepting the conclusion. Argument can also refer to a brief summary or synopsis of a literary work. |
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| A brief speech in which a character turns from the person he/she is addressing to speak directly to the audience. |
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| The repetition of vowel sounds and stressed syllables containing dissimilar consonant sounds. example: Robert Browning: "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?" The long e sound is repeated in reach and exceed. |
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| The omission of conjunctions from constructions in which they would normally be used. Speeds up the rhythm of the sentence. Such as "I came, I saw, I conquered." |
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| French for "advance guard"; art and literature that are ahead of their time, that are innovative and that often attack established conventions. |
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| A song-like poem that tells a story; often one dealing with adventure or romance; often employ repetition of a refrain. |
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