Literary terms 3

	a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions
	a detail, image, or character that occurs in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response from the reader
	the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers
	a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions
	a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed "Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."
	a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor
	a situation that requires a person to decide between two equaly attractive or equally unattractive alternatives
	a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme
	an inscription on a tombstone or burial place
	a term used to point out a characteristic of a person sometimes used in connection with a person or god's name ex. swift-footed Achilles ex. gray-eyed goddess for Athena
	an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant
	a breif story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters
	a character who embodies a single quality and does not develop in the course of the work
	excessive pride or arragance that results in the downfall of the protagonist in tragedy---most common tragic flaw
	a conclustion one draws based on premises or evidence; information drawn from reading between the lines
	intensely vehement, high emotional verbal attack
	placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast
	a narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character, restricting information to what is seen, heard, thought, or felt by that one character
	a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite. e. g. describing a ghastly scene by saying, "It was not a pretty picture."
	a concise statement, often offering advice; an adage
	substituting the name of an object for another object or person closely associated with it. "The pen (writing) is mightier than the sword (warfare)"
	a word formed from the imitation of natural sounds ex. "whoosh"
	a humorous imitation of a serious work
	the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity
	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more ocnjunctions that is necessary or natural
	a character who demonstrates some complexity and who changes or develops in the course of a work
	a person or group who bears the blame for another
	an artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by the lack of conscious control.
	a construction in which one word is used in two different senses. "After he threw the ball, he threw a fit."
	using one part of an object to represent the entire object i. e., referring to a car as "wheels."
	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another-- ex. "a loud color" " a sweet sound"
	the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude that it actually is: a deliberate under-emphasis
	a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings