An eight-line poem or stanza.
The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.
A section or division of a long poem.
A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.
The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity, sorrow, or compassion for a character.
A technique of plunging into the middle of a story and only later using a flashback to tell what has happened previously. (This term consists of three Latin words).
A harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.
At the beginning of an epic (or other poem) a call to a muse, god or spirit for inspiration.
A moment of illumination, usually occuring at or near the end of a work.
The prevailing mood or feeling of a literary work.
A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier.
A writer's choice of words, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision.
A __ poem is one that tells a story.
One who narrates, or tells, a story.
A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things.
The person who speaks in a literary work, from the Latin word for mask.
A generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllbles in poetry.