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Satire
Humorous writing or speech used to point out errors, falsehoods, foibles, or failings.
Mood
Feeling or atmosphere in a literary work.
Situational Irony
What happens is different than what is expected.
Motif
A unifying element in an artistic work, especially any recurrent image, symbol, or theme.
Dynamic Character
A character who changes through a story.
1D/Static Character
A character who does not change, or changes very little, during a story.
Foil
a character, usually static, designed to highlight qualities of a major character.
Archetype
An inherited, often unconscious, ancestral memory or motif that recurs throughout history and literature.
Alliteration
Consecutive or neighboring words beginning with the same consonant sound.
Repetition
Words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythms and to create emphasis.
Personification
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Parallelism
Grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence.
Foreshadowing
Hints or clues about what is going to happen later in a story.
Symbol
An object, person, place, or action that not only has a meaning in itself, but also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value.
Bildungsroman
A story which tells of a hero's growth and development from youth to adulthood.
Allusion
An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, or theme found in literature, the other arts history, myths, religion, or popular, and culture.
Simile
A comparison between two unalike things using "like" or "as."
Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things.
Dialogue
Conversation in literary work.
INterjection
A word added to a sentence to convey emotion.