1. Allegory

Used to describe poetry that satirizes the heroic style

3. Pun

4. Devices

5. Pathos

6. Syntax

2. Mock-heroic

A story with an underlying meaning as well as a literal one

The use of words to exploit double-meanings for humorous effects

The power of arousing pity or sadness

Literary or dramatic tool designed to create a particular effect in order to

evoke a particular response from the audience or reader

The way in which words are arranged to form phrases or and

sentences

3. Quatrain

1. Alliteration

2. Monosyllabic

4. Dialogue

5. Persona

6. Rhetoric

A stanza or poem of four lines

1. Art of effective speaking or writing

2. Artificial or exaggerated language

A conversation between two or more people in a book, film or play

Someone’s personality as presented to others

A word of one syllable

Use of the same sound at the start of words occurring together

2. Stream of Consciousness

1. Allusion

3. Motif

5. Repetition

4. Personification

6. Theme

Indirect reference

Giving human characteristics to something

A literary technique that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written

equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or

her sensory reactions to external occurrences.

Recurring theme or design

Act of repeating something

Recurring idea

1. Ambiguity

2. Didactic

3. Multiple narrators

4. Perspective

5. Rhyming couplets

6. Tone

Having more than one possible meaning

Intended/overeager to instruct

Several narrators telling a story from different points of view

A view or opinion of the situation

Two lines that rhyme in verse

An indicator of attitude, emotion or thoughts

1. Archaic

2. Dramatic irony

3. First person

4. Rhythm

5. Tragic hero

6. Assonance

Ancient or out-of-date

In drama, the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of

the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus of placing the

spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters.

A story narrated by one character who refers to themselves in the

first person

The arrangements or words to form a regular pattern or stresses

A literary character who makes errors in judgment, in his or her

actions, that inevitably leads to his or her own downfall

The rhyming of vowel sounds

3. Octave

1. Ballad

2. Dramatic monologue

4. Suspense

5. Satire

6. Unreliable narrator

Narrative poem

A speech given by a character that explains their motives,

feelings or actions

Eight lines of verse

State of uncertainty

Use of ridicule to expose vice or folly

A literary device in which the credibility of the narrator is seriously

compromised

1. Blank verse

3. Omniscient narrator

2. Dramatic Tension

4. Setting

5. Caesura

6. Ellipsis

a type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no

rhyme

A feeling of uncertainty and interest about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's

perceptions in a dramatic work

A third person in a play or story that has no physical being. It witnesses all

events and is all-knowing

Scenery used in a play or film

Pause in a line of verse

Omission of letters or words in a sentence

1. Characterisation

2. Enjambement

4. Simile

3. Oxymoron

5. Cliche

6. Third person

The process of conveying information about a character

through their actions, speech and thoughts

The continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of

poetry to the next

Figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory ideas

Figure of speech comparing one thing to another using ‘as’ or ‘like’

Expression or idea that is no longer effective because of overuse

Where the characters in the narrative are distinct from the

person telling the story

1. Colloquial

3. Pace

2. Hyperbole

4. Soliloquy

5. Conceit

6. Imagery

A manner of speaking that is informal and uses phrases or words associated

with a particular area

Deliberate exaggeration for effect

also called rhythm or tempo, is a term used to describe the flow of events in

an entertainment piece

A speech made by a person while alone

Too high opinion of oneself

descriptive language that evokes

sensory experience

1. Idiomatic language

3. Paradox

4. Sonnet

2. Irony

5. Metaphor

6. Parody

Phrases that would not make sense if you took the individual words literally

When a statement is apparently straight forward but there are undercurrents that offer a different significance – it means there is a difference between what is said and what is

meant

1. Person or thing made up of contradictory elements

2. Statement that seems self-contradictory but may be true

A fourteen line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme

A figure of speech in which a term is applied to something it does not

literally denote in order to imply a resemblance

An exaggerated or amusing imitation of someone else’s style

1. Pathetic Fallacy

2. Staging

4. Symbolism

5. Protagonist

3. Diction

6. Stanza

When the weather or natural world reflect the mood of the writing

the process of selecting, designing, adapting to, or modifying the performance space for a play

Manner of pronouncing words or sounds

When something stands for or represents something beyond it

Leading character in a play or story

Verse of a poem