| Aside | a short speech spoken by a character in a drama directed to audience or character(inaudible for othe |
| alliteration | the repetition in close intervals of the consonants (wailing in the winter wind) |
| Allusion | a reference of sth in literature, mythology,history considered common knowledge |
| ambiguity | double or even multiple meaning |
| antagonist | a character that opposes the protagonist(bad guy) |
| assonance | the repetition of vowels at close intervals “mad as a hatter” |
| ballad | a song or poem that tells a story, or a slow love song |
| Character | : the vehicle that moves the story forward.A character may be main or minor |
| types of characters | Dynamic characters often change as the plot unfolds; Static characters remain the same. |
| types of Characterization | physical description,dialogue,character's action,reactions, thoughts and feelings |
| Conflict | the struggle between two opposing forces |
| types of conflicts | internal conflict character struggling with himself,external- with external forces :nature, God, |
| consonance | the close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds |
| Convention | an accepted way of doing things. Works of literature follow or break conventions. |