Literary terms

I would like to preface this post by stating that the first term given to me is considered obsolete and highly icky.

Electra Complex: Mainly the unconscious tendency of a daughter to be sexually attracted to her father, often accompanied by hostile feelings towards the mother. Female manifestation of the Oedipus complex.
Example: The novel "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a great example of the Electra Complex. Nicole, the main character, has incestuous relationship with her father after the death of her mother. She shares his bed (platonic), sings him songs, holds his hand, and basks in his reciprocal adulation, attention, and love becoming the quintessential "daddy's girl" until father and daughter are no longer like lovers but become actual lovers. Note that the sexual consummation of the relationship is not always necessary to the existence of the Electra Complex.

Elision: Omission of a final or initial sound in pronunciation. Omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable, as in scanning a verse.
Example: Shakespeare's Sonnet 129: Th' expense of the spirit in a waste of shame. The 'e' in 'the' is left off. In poetry this is done to make lines fit to a certain meter. In other, simpler examples (eg fish 'n chips) it is done basically to make things quicker and easier. However, since this is college english and the teacher is Fielding, I have a feeling we're talking about the poetry kind, so it's done to make the lines fit to a certain meter.