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Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in which the name of the central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes the book's allegorical nature. Kay Boyle's story \"Astronomer's Wife\" and Christina Rossetti's poem \"Up-Hill\" both contain allegorical elements.  \nAlliteration  \nThe repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: \"Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood. \" Hopkins, \"In the Valley ofthe Elwy. \"  \nAntagonist  \nA character or force against which another character struggles. Creon is Antigone's antagonist in Sophocles'play Antigone; Teiresias is the antagonist of Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King.  \nAssonance  \nThe repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as in \"I rose and told him of my woe. \" Whitman's \"When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer\" contains assonantal \"I's\" in the following lines: \"How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, / Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself. \"  \nCharacter  \nAn imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. Literary characters may be major or minor , static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of change) . In Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona is a major character, but one who is static, like the minor character Bianca. Othello is a major character who is dynamic, exhibiting an ability to change.  \nCharacterization  \nThe means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal characters through their speech, dress, manner, and actions. Readers come to understand the character Miss Emily in Faulkner's story \"A Rose for Emily\" through what she says, how she lives, and what she does.  \nClimax  \nThe turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. The climax of John Updike's \"A&P,\" for example, occurs when Sammy quits his job asa cashier.  \nComplication  \nAn intensification of the conflict in a story or play. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central conflict in a literary work. Frank O'Connor's story \"Guests ofthe Nation\" provides a striking example, as does Ralph Ellison's \"Battle Royal. \"  \nConflict  \nA struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. The conflict may occur within a character as well as between characters. Lady Gregory's one-act play The Rising of the Moon exemplifies both types of conflict as the Policeman wrestles with his conscience in an inner conflict and confronts an antagonist in the person of the ballad singer.  \nConnotation  \nThe associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation. Dylan Thomas's \"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night\" includes intensely connotative language, as in these lines: \"Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright / Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, / Rage, rage against the dying of the light. \"  \nConvention  \nA customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable, or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle. Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary genres, such as novel, short story, ballad, sonnet, and play.  \nDenotation  \nThe dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play off a word's denotative meaning against its connotations, or suggested and implied associational implications. 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