Question | Answer |
the ghostly shadow that haunts and follows its earthly counterpart; the negative or evil manifestation of what is actually on the "inside" of the haunted character | doppelganger |
a sudden moment of understanding that causes a character to change or act in a certain way | epiphany |
the use of an indirect, mild, delicate, inoffensive, or vague word or expression for one thought to be course, sordid, or otherwise unpleasant, offensive, or blunt. | euphemism |
short, often witty statement presenting an observation or a universal truth | aphorism |
device a writer uses to hint at a future course of action | foreshadowing |
is an interruption in a story to tell about events that happened before the current action of the story | flashback |
serious character flaw of the main character (protagonist) | hamartia |
the act or habit of misusing words to comic effect. This usually results from ignorance or from confusion of words similar in sound but different in meaning, mainly polysyllabic words | malapropism |
a play on words for humor | pun |
a new word expressions, or uses | neologism |
a statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it | non sequitur |
the mian idea of a text, expressed directly or indirectly | theme |
a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary, artistic, or musical work | motif |
presents the action and the characters' speech, without comment or emotion | objective point of view |
presents the action and the charcters along with the author's personal view or opinion | subjective point of view |
uses the pronoun I | first person point of view |
uses the pronoun you | second person point of view |