Literary Terms
Alliteration: The repetion of first consonants in a group of words.
Allusion: A reference to something or someone often literary.
Antagonist: A major character who opposes the protagonist in a story or play.
Archetype: A character who represents a certain type of person.
Assonance: The repetion of vowel sounds as in " Days wane away".
Blank Verse: Unrhymed lines of poerty usually in iambic pevtameter.
Characterization: The means by which an author establishes character. An author may directly describe the apperance and personality of characters.
Climax: The point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak.
Conflict: Elements that create the plot.
Contrast: To explaing how to things differ each other.
Couplets: A pair rhyming lines in a poem sett of from the rest of the poem.
Elegy: A poem mourning the dead.
Epic: A long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure.
Fable: A story that illustrates a moral often using animals as the characters.
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