English Final Flashcards
Invocation to the muse
An address to a deity or muse that often takes the form of a request for help in composing the poem at hand.
stock epithet
a descriptive word or phrase that is used repeatedly to describe a person, place, or thing in a literary work.
example:Swift-footed Achilles
allusion
a reference to someone outside the poem
example: To my dog, our neighborhood park is the Garden of Eden
alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
antagonist
a character or force that opposes the main character
protagonist
the leading character or one of the major characters
metaphor
describing something by calling it something else
personification
attributes human characteristics, emotions and behaviors to animals and inaminate objects
simile
comparison of two things using like or as
first person
narrator talks about themselves
second person
narrator talks to the reader directly
third person
narrator talks about other people
