A contradictory statement.

A character's tragic flaw is known as his or her

A term used to describe the punishment of souls by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin carried out during life.

An epic's larger-than-life main character whose mighty deeds reflect the values admired by the society that created the epic.

A story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts.

A pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through the ages. It can be a character, a plot, an image, or a setting.

A long, narrative poem that relates the deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.

In literature, a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or several works.

A reference to a statement, person, place, event or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myths, or politics.

The reasons that compel a character to act as he or she does.

The uncertainty or anxiety a reader feels about what will happen next in a story.

A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines.

The process by which the writer reveals the personality of the character.

This occurs when a character struggles between opposing needs, desire, or emotions witihin himself or herself.

An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing.

A subdivision in a long poem, similar to a chapter in a book.

A triplet or stanza of three lines, in which each line ends with the same rhyme.

An interlocking, three-line stanza form with the rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc ded, and so on.

A journey taken in search of something of value.

The term used to describe a character's excessive pride.

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