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 Assonance Ancient or out-of-date In drama, the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously),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