Literary Vocabulary Quarter 4

A story which is light in tone and characters overcome adversity to achieve a happy resolution

Combination of incompatible comparisons

Excessive or exaggerated emotion

Statement put forward as a premise to be supported or proved

A work which mocks something by imitating it

The combination of distinctive features of an artistic or literary expression

Repetition of a sentence structure or grammatical form, used for effect

An intentional omission of words

The choice and use of words

List of objects, names, etc. to produce a cumulative effect

"Seize the day": Make use of time

Humorous scene or character used to lighten a tense or dramatic play

A word that sounds like the appropriate one, but is not; used for humorous effect

A work that exposes and criticizes human stupidity and vice

Describing one sense in terms of another

The belief that life is meaningless and that all things are empty and false: "nothing"

Needlessly wordy or repetitive

Narrative point of view in which we follow the thoughts of only one character

Modern movement urging people to choose to live authentically in a seemingly meaningless world

Humorous use of a word that makes use of its different meaning or applications

Philosophy in which people attempt to cope with an irrational existence

Part of the story's plot line in which the main problem or conflict is worked out

Work intending to teach or instruct 

Beginning a story, not at the beginning, but near point of greatest tension

Invented name under which an author writes

Voice or character speaking in a poem, whether or not it is the author's voice

A story within another story, wherein both stories gain meaning from each other

Brief story, often with animals as characters, used to convey a lesson or moral

Line or stanza repeated throughout a poem

Trite or commonplace because of overuse