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Literary Terms

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alliteration   use of the same letter in a sentence(Shelly sells sea shells saturday)  
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allusion   reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person,place,or thing.  
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anaphora   repetition of the same word or group of words, and ideas. (ex: i will rock, i will roll, i will win.)  
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archetype   character, actionm or situation that is a prototype or pattern of hunman life generally  
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assonance   esemblance of sound, especially of the vowel sounds in words  
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asyndeton   deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses (ex:I came, i saw, i conquered")  
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polysyndeton   device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythem and to create emphasis.  
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conflict   term that describes the tension between opposing forces in a work of literature.  
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detail   facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose.  
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diction   word choice intended to convey a certain effect.  
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Flashback   scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.  
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Imagery   consists of words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing scenes  
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personification   giving an animal, or object human-like qualities  
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direct characterization   in literature and drama, the method of character development in which the author simply tells what the character is like  
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Juxtaposition   poetic and rhetorical device in which normally device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are place next to one another, often creating an effect of suprise and wit.  
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Metaphor   explicit comparison between2 unlike things  
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Motif   term that describes a pattern or strand if imagery or symbolism in a work of literature.  
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Symbol   use of any object, person, place, or action that both hasa meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself.  
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Simile   explicit comparison between2 unlike things signaled by the use LIKE or ASS  
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Onomatopeoia   refers to the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning.  
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Point of View   perspective from which a narrative is told.  
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Pun   play on meaning of words  
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Repetition   device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more thaan once to enhance rhythemand create emphasis.  
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Rhetorical shift/turn   a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, character, or the reader.  
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Setting   time & place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place.  
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Situational irony   occurs when a situtation turns out differently fomr what one would normally expect.  
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dramatic irony   occurs when a character/speaker says or does something that has different meanings from what he thinks it means.  
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verbal irony   occurs when a speaker/narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite  
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theme   central message of literary work.  
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tone   the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail.  
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