| A | B |
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| mood | feeling created in the reader by a literary work |
| alliteration | repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables |
| internal rhyme | ?? |
| refrain | a repeated line in a song or poem |
| allegory | a story or tale that has two or more levels of meaning- a literary level and one or more symbolic levels |
| allusion | a reference to a well known person place event literary work or work of art |
| foreshadowing | the use of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
| simile | a figure of speech tha makes direct comparison between two subjects using either like or as |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else |
| conceit | extended metaphor comparing two very different things |
| paradox | a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth |
| hamartia | the mistake or error which a tragic hero commits which accounts for his misfortunes |
| hubris | a type of behavior which frequently contributes to the protagonist's downfall |
| catastrophe | the closing portion of a drama |
| reversal | a major incident in the complext plot of the tragedy which results from a recognition on the part of the character of some hitherto unknown piece of information |
| recognition | the incident in the plot which the central character discovers some important piece of information that affects his actions |
