Omniscient Point of View:
knowing all things, usually the third person
Onomatopoeia: use of a word whose sound in some degree
imitates or suggests its meaning.
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which two contradicting
words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a
concise paradox .
Pacing: rate of
movement; tempo.
Paradox: a statement
apparently self-contradictory or absurd but really containing a possible truth;
an opinion contrary to generally accepted ideas.
Personification: a figure of speech attributing human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract ideas.
Plot: a plan or scheme to accomplish a purpose. 
Poignant: eliciting
sorrow or sentiment.
Point of View: the attitude unifying any oral or written argumentation; in description, the physical point from which the observer views what he is describing.
Postmodernism: literature characterized by experimentation, irony, nontraditional forms, multiple meanings, playfulness and a blurred boundary between real and imaginary.
Prose: the ordinary
form of spoken and written language; language that does not have a regular
rhyme pattern.
Protagonist: the central character in a work of fiction;
opposes antagonist.
Pun: play on words;
the humorous use of a word to emphasize different meanings.
Purpose: the intended result wished by an author.
Realism: writing about the ordinary aspects of life in a
straightforward manner to reflect life as it actually is.
Refrain: a phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem
or song; chorus.
Requiem: any chant, dirge, hymn, or musical service for the
dead.
Resolution: point in a literary work at which the chief
dramatic complication is worked out; denouement.
Restatement: idea repeated for emphasis.
Rhetoric: use of language, both written and verbal in order
to persuade.
Rhetorical Question:: question suggesting its own answer or
not requiring an answer; used in argument or persuasion.
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