Should Know Already
(but many factors)
1. irony (dramatic, verbal, situational)
2. point of view / narrative perspective (first person, third person limited, omniscient)
3. figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification)
4. tragedy (arete, hubris, hamartia, ate, dike)
5. romance (arete, hubris, sophrosune, right rule, order restored)
Memorize and learn if you don't already have them clearly in your head
1. allusion
2. allegory
3. stream of consciousness
4. imagery
5. hyperbole and understatement
6. diction
7. alliteration and assonance
8. paradox
9. tone, mood, attitude, atmosphere
10. rhetoric / literary devices
11. parallelism
12. satire
13. syntax (telegraphic, periodic, loose, inverted sentences)
14. organization/structure
15. connotation and denotation
16. pun
17. blank verse & free verse & heroic couplets
18. meter & iambic pentameter
19. sonnet
20. rhyme scheme
21. denounment / resolution
22. foil
23. epiphany
24. monologue, dialogue, soliloquy
25. incongruity
26. reduction to the absurd / rule of three
27. catalog
28. turn
29. juxtaposition
30. couplet