English Flashcards
The repetition of initial consonant sounds
Alliteration
A reference within a work to something else, usually history or another artistic work
Allusion
A force or character who struggles against the protagonist
Antagonist
A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in 2 adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings
Antithesis
A speaker or writers directly addressing an absent person, abstraction, or inanimate objects
Apostrophe
Character types, plot patterns, or images that recur throughout world literature
Archetype
A stage device in which a character briefly discloses his thoughts in the presence of other character who by convention do not hear him
Aside
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words
Assonance
The mood or emotional that the reader is supposed to share with the characters
Atmosphere
A narrative poem often derived from folklore and originally intended to be sung or recited
Ballad
When a fable has animals as a main character
Beast fable
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
The use of words that are harsh or dissonant in sound
Cacophony
A pause in the middle of a line of poetry, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation
Caesura
Two parallel phrases, clauses, or sentences in which the second reverses the elements of the first, inverting the parallel structure
Chaismus
