Honors English: Essential Vocabulary Review

A personal caustic and bitter expression of strong and personal disapproval

A switch in the normal word order, often used for emphasis or for rhyme scheme

A reference within a piece of literature to another well-known work, person, place, or event.

the author reveals the character by describing how the character looks, what the character says

Literal meaning of a word

All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests

A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William C. Bryant 

a series of incidents that are related to one another; what happens in a story,

A conclusion not directly provided by evidence, but able to be drawn from the facts at hand

 a situation where actions have an opposite from the intended effect; the outcome is contrary

The analysis of a poem's meter by marking the stressed and unstressed syllables in each line

The atmosphere that pervades a literary work to evoke a certain emotion from the audience.

A philosophy which promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints.

A study of the rules for forming grammatical sentences in a language; the arrangement of words.

An ideal or perfect place or state; a place achieving social or political perfection

The use of vivid language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character 

A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.

A musical verse that express the observations and feelings of a single speaker 

Often their writings explored psychological effects of guilt, sin, and madness

A conversation between two or more characters.

A brief, often witty saying; a proverb

A statement that appears self-contradictory but that reveals a kind of truth 

A form of a language spoken in a certain geographical region that has its own grammar.

the author uses his own comments or narrator's comments to describe a character to the reader

Repetition of initial consonant sound;  "He clasps the crag with crooked hands" is an example.

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme

A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. 

It refers to the time and place in which the events of a story take place.

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. 

"Opposer of Action". The adversary, who stands in the way of the protagonist's goals.

A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature with a deeper meaning

19th-century western European artistic and literary movement emphasizing emotion and passion

A form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person.

Puritans believed one should write this way because an ornate style would be a sign of vanity

An imaginary person who inhabits a literary work and who may be static or dynamic.

 Occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience not by the characters

A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.

A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level

Most commonly used form of irony; there is a contradiction between what is stated and meant

A device that depends on the existence of at least two separate, contrasting levels of meaning 

Chief character of a narrative work trying to accomplish an objective or working toward a goal.

A poem which tells a story.