- allegory
- functions as literal and figurative story/symbolic representation
- alliteration
- words that have the same initial conconant sound
- allusion
- indirect meaningful reference
- analogy
- correspondence in dissimilar things
- antagonist
- one who opposes the protagonist
- apostrophe
- speaker directly addresses a person who is either dead, not present, or inanimate object
- apprehensive
- fearful/anxious
- archetype
- model/best/prototype
- assonance
- resemblance in vowel sounds of words anywhere in the word
- belligerently
- eager to fight
- compunctious
- regretful/guilt
- connotation
- figurative meaning
- denotation
- dictionary(literal)
- dramatic irony
- when someone is aware of something who someone else is not
- entailment
- involve/require
- equivocate
- to conceal/avoid truth/vage
- euphemism
- substitution of bad words for good words
- exposition
- background on setting
- hyperbole
- gross exaggeration
- imagery
- MENTAL pictures/images applied to any senses
- juncture
- moment/where things join
- malice
- intention to do evil
- meager
- lacking in quantity/quality
- metaphor
- comparison between 2 things
- mood
- atmosphere of a story
- onomatopoeia
- word that sounds like the thing it is
- oxymoron
- 2 words side by side that contradict each other
- paradox
- self contradictory that may be true
- persevere
- carry on/continue
- persona
- a portrayed person
- personification
- to characterize inanimate things with human attributes
- protagonist
- leading character
- rebuked
- disapproval/criticism
- refrain
- repeitious utterance or theme
- reprehensible
- disgraceful/shameful
- rising action
- builds on conflict
- scourges
- cause trouble or suffering
- simile
- comparison using like or as
- situational irony
- opposite of what you would expect
- static/dynamic
- unchanging/changing
- symbolism
- concrete item that stands for something abstract
- theme
- moral/message of a story
- tragedy
- a dramatic work where the protagonist struggles
- tragic flaw
- flaw that leads to hero\'s downfall
- verbal irony
- intentional words(sarcasm)
- volition
- by choice/voluntarily
