| 1 | sonnet | | _____ | correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words |
| 2 | novel | | _____ | pertaining to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, particularly in poetry |
| 3 | simile | | _____ | an indirect reference to something, such as the Bible or a Shakespeare play |
| 4 | metaphor | | _____ | a figurative device used for comparing |
| 5 | rhyme | | _____ | a 14 line poem |
| 6 | alliteration | | _____ | the quality of a literary work that evoke sorrow or pity |
| 7 | enjambment | | _____ | a central character who has one flaw but is otherwise perfect |
| 8 | end-stopping | | _____ | a dramatic device where a character speaks his/her thoughts aloud |
| 9 | caesura | | _____ | when the sound of a word suggests its meaning |
| 10 | structure | | _____ | when a line of poetry flows uninterruptedly into the next |
| 11 | rhythm | | _____ | the use of exaggeration to create an effect |
| 12 | first person narrator | | _____ | using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect |
| 13 | omniscient narrator | | _____ | when the story-teller makes reference to him/herself or addresses the reader directly |
| 14 | unreliable narrator | | _____ | when a story is told from the perspective of a character with the use of 'I' |
| 15 | self-conscious narrator | | _____ | when the audience/reader know something that one or more characters do not know |
| 16 | personification | | _____ | where the same word, phrase or line is used more than once to create an effect |
| 17 | pathetic fallacy | | _____ | a figurative device that endows non-human entities with human characteristics |
| 18 | objective correlative | | _____ | a figurative device where nature, buildings and such like reflect the mood of the story or a character |
| 19 | quatrain | | _____ | the representation or evocation of a particular emotion by means of symbols that objectify that emotion and are associated with it. |
| 20 | stanza | | _____ | the time and/or place in which a literary work is set |
| 21 | repetition | | _____ | the art of persuasive language |
| 22 | Romantic literature | | _____ | pertaining to a text written in the early part of the 20th Century |
| 23 | Modern literature | | _____ | when there is some kind of punctuation at the end of a line of poetry |
| 24 | irony | | _____ | a strong pause in the body of a line of poetry |
| 25 | allusion | | _____ | the kind of story that ends in the graveyard |
| 26 | characterisation | | _____ | the associations or inferred meaning of a word or phrase |
| 27 | connotation | | _____ | when words begin with the same sound |
| 28 | dramatic irony | | _____ | when the events related in a story are not necessarily 'true' |
| 29 | hyperbole | | _____ | the juxtaposition of two contradictory ideas, such as 'Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!' |
| 30 | onomatopoeia | | _____ | how a text is built or put together |
| 31 | oxymoron | | _____ | a long work of prose fiction |
| 32 | pathos | | _____ | pertaining to a text written between approximately 1785 and 1825 |
| 33 | rhetoric | | _____ | the methods an author uses to construct characters |
| 34 | setting | | _____ | the kind of story that ends with marriage and fertility |
| 35 | soliloquy | | _____ | a figurative device used for substituting a more descriptive, vivid or poetic idea |
| 36 | tragedy | | _____ | a unit of four lines of poetry |
| 37 | comedy | | _____ | when a story is told by an all-knowing observer |
| 38 | tragic hero | | _____ | a verse of poetry |