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Allegory | Narrative that serves as an extended metaphor, complete narrative that conveys abstract ideas to get a point across |
Extended Metaphor | Comparison between two unlike things that continues through several paragraphs |
Allusion | Reference in a literary work to a person, place or thing in history or another work of literature |
Antagonist | Deceives, frustrates, and works against the main character |
Aside | Speech directed to the audience that the characters aren't supposed to hear |
Ballad | Narrative folk song, created by commoners, passed down orally, on subjects of killings, feuds, history, rebellion |
Connotation | Implied meaning |
Denotation | Actual meaning or definition |
Couplet | Every two lines rhyme |
Denouement | Reveals all secrets and misunderstandings connected to the plot, Final outcome or explanation after the climax |
Dramatic Monologue | Innermost thoughts and feelings that are hidden throughout the story line, Usually a poem or speech |
Elegy | Couplets, sorrowful, Usually for someone who's died |
Epigram | Short poem or verse, Seeks to ridicule with sarcasm |
Figurative Language | Words mean something other than what they actually say, Simile and metaphor |
Flashback | An interruption of the chronological sequence of events |
Gothic | Fantastic tales depicting horror, despair, dark subjects |
Hyperbole | Extravagant exaggerations |
Irony | Exact opposite of what it appears to be |
Verbal Irony | Character says something opposite of what the audience has learned, Saying something in jest that is actually true, |
Dramatic Irony | Facts are not known by the character but are known by the audience |
Cosmic Irony | Some unknown force brings about dire and dreadful events |