Some Literary Terms

Diction:The selection of words in a writing or speech.

Connotation: The indirect meaning of a word.

Denation:  The direct meaning of a word.

Alliteration :  Repetition of a consonant at the beginning of two or more words or stressed.

Allusion :  An implicit or indirect reference to another work of literature,a historical or mythical person or event. 

Meter : The arrangement of "feet" [stressed and unstressed syllables] in a verse line .

Motif: One of the dominant ideas in a work of literary.

Pun : A play upon words which are similar in sound but different in meaning.

Hamartia: An error or a flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy.

Poetic Justice: The natural judgment which gives the wicked his due punishment and the virtuous his due reward.