Key terms

• Allegory


  When characters represent ideas that relate to morality, politics or religion
• Archetype


  Stereotype e.g. typical Shakespearean heroine
• Assonance


  Alliteration of vowel
• Chiasmus


  Reversal of phrases in following sentences e.g. fowl is fair, fair is fowl
• Consonance


  Alliteration of consonants
• Dichotomy


  Division between 2 opposites
• Didacticism


  The purpose of the text is to teach a lesson
• Dissonance


  Harsh sounds
• Epigraph


  A poem, quote or phrase at the beginning of the text
• Microcosm


  Representation of something much larger
• Paradox


  Contradictory statement
• Pathos


  Evoking emotions
• Plosive


  p and b sounds
• Political diatribe


  A text is written to criticise a political belief
• Syndetic


  With 'and'
• Asyndetic


  Without 'and'