Literary Devices- The "A's"

Moment when a protagonist discovers something that leads to/ explains a reversal of fortune

2 ideas are opposed in parallel way. "I long and dread to close" "Give me liberty or give me...

Character reveals inner thought that we assume other characters on stage don't hear.

Authors prone to exalting pastoral virtues and the countryside

Interlude frequently featuring grotesque or bawdy humor place in between serious elements

A brief account of a personal experience told for a specific purpose. 

Something that is not placed in its proper historical time period. Clock in Shake's Julius C. 

Rhetorical device involving individual sentences left suggestively incomplete. 

Something stated in such a way that its meaning cannot be definitely determined.

A concise, pointed statement that purports to reveal a truth or principle.

Speaker directly address a person or thing who is dead or otherwise not physically present

Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in nearby words

Protagonist in modern work who does not exhibit the qualities of traditional heros.  

A work that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

A reference to another work, person, event, myth, etc...

The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words. 

 Extra unstressed syllables at the beginning of a verse that are not counted as part of meter