: A major division in a play.

Often, individual ___ are divided into smaller units (“scenes”) that all take place in a specific location.

A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one. A story, fictional or nonfiction,in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. The interaction of these characters, things, events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth. These characters, etc. may be symbolic of the ideas referred to.

The repetition at close intervals of initial identical consonant sounds. Or, vowel sounds in successivewords or syllables that repeat.

An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text) with which the reader is expected to be familiar.____ are usually literary, historical, Biblical, or mythological.

a comparison to a directly parallel case.

When a writer uses an ____, he or she argues that aclaim reasonable for one case is reasonable for the ___ case.

Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This device is adeliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer’s point more coherent.

the character against whom the protagonist struggles or contends (if there is one)

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a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction2.—An address to the dead as if living; to the inanimate as if animate; to the absent as if present; to theunborn as if alive

a literary device that uses the form of poetry to define or describe the nature of poetry itself. It is inward-looking rather than outward. The poet attempts to explain what poetry is or should be by using the forms and traditions of poetry. The Art of Poetry

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity. “Fake” and “lake” denoterhyme; “lake” and “fate” demonstrate assonance.

A “novel of formation/education/culture”), novel of formation, novel of education, orcoming-of-age story is a literary genre that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonistfrom youth to adulthood, and in which, therefore, character change is extremely important.

The melodic pattern just before the end of a sentence or phrase–for instance an interrogation or an exhortation. More generally, the natural rhythm of language depending on the position of stressed and unstressed syllables.

A pause separating phrases within lines of poetry–an important part of poetic rhythm.

The term ___ comes from the Latin “a cutting” or “a slicing.”

a device used in descriptive writing and visual arts where particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated to create a silly or comic effect

Literally, the phrase is Latin for “seize the day,” from carpere (to pluck, harvest, or grab) and the accusative form of die (day). The term refers to a common moral or theme in classical literature that the reader should make the most out of life and should enjoy it before it ends.