Tag: Literary Terms

The relationship between words in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that preceded them differ. A form of repetition used in prose and poetry. (A Handbook to Literature) ... Read More

The struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces. Conflict provides interest, suspense, and tension (Handbook to Literature). Person versus self is arguably the most important conflict within any character-based narrative. How the characters battle their own "demons," drives a deeper conflict and exploration of what it ... Read More

The struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces. Conflict provides interest, suspense, and tension (Handbook to Literature). Person versus self is arguably the most important conflict within any character-based narrative. How the characters battle their own "demons," drives a deeper conflict and exploration of what it ... Read More

The third part of plot, the point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing; also called turning point or (following Aristotle) peripeteia. (Norton) ... Read More

The third part of plot, the point at which the action stops rising and begins falling or reversing; also called turning point or (following Aristotle) peripeteia. (Norton) ... Read More

Contrasting light and shade. Originally applied to painting, the term is used in the criticism of various literary forms involving the contrast of light and darkness, as in much of Hawthorne's and Nabokov's fiction and in Faulkner's Light in August. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow involves complex interplay of black and ... Read More

Contrasting light and shade. Originally applied to painting, the term is used in the criticism of various literary forms involving the contrast of light and darkness, as in much of Hawthorne's and Nabokov's fiction and in Faulkner's Light in August. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow involves complex interplay of black and ... Read More