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Adventure Novel   Novel where exciting events predominate over characterization and sometimes theme  
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Allegory   Form of extended metaphor in which objects and persons in a narrative, either in prose or verse, are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself  
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Anadiplosis   A rhetorical trope formed by repeating the last word of one phrase, clause or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next.  
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Analogy   A comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects  
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Anaphora   Repitition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences  
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Antimetabole   Revesal of the order of repeated words or phrases to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast  
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Antithesis   Establishing a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them  
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Apostrophe   The direct address of a person or personified thing, either present or absent  
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Assonance   Similar vowel founds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants  
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Blank Verse   Unrhymed iambic pentameter  
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Burlesque   A word designed to ridicule a style, literary form, or subject matter either by treating the exalted in a trivial way or by discussing the trivial in exalted terms.  
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Caesura   A pause, metrical, or rhetorical, occuring somewhere in a line of poetry  
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Canon   A term that is half-seriously applied to those works generally accepted as the great ones  
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Chiasmus   A crossing parallelism, where the second part of a grammatical construction ins balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order.  
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Coming-of-age-story   A type of novel where the protagonist is initiated into adulthood through knowledge, experience, or both, often by process of disillusionment.  
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conceit   An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or imagte, such as an analogy or metaphor.  
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Diacope   Repetition of a word or prhase after an intervening word or phrase  
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End-stopped   A line that has a natural pause at the end  
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Enjambed   The running over of a sentence or thoguh into the next couplet or line without a pause at the ened of the line; a run-on line  
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Epithet   An edjective or adjective phrase appropriately qualifying a subject by naming a key or important characteristic of the subject, as in "laughing happiness"  
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Transferred Epithet   An adjective modifying a noun which it cannot logically modify, yet which works becasue the metaphorical meaning remains clear  
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Epizeuxis   Repetition of a word (for emphasis)  
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Foot   The basic unit of meter consisting of a group of two or three syllables  
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Frame   A narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel  
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Free verse   Verse that has neither regular rhyme nor regular meter  
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Heroic couplet   Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter  
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Humanism   The new emphasis in the Renasissance on human culture, educationa nd reason, sparked by a revival of interest in classical Greek and Roman literature, culture, and language  
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Invective   A mode of expression, through words or events, conveying a reality different from and usually different from and usually opposite to appearance or expectation.  
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Juvenalian Satire   Harasher, more pionted, perhaps intolerante satire typified by the writings of Juvenal.  
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Lampoon   A crude, coarase, often bitter satire ridiculing the personal appearance or character of a person  
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Literary quality   A judgement about the value of a novel as literature  
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Meter   The rhythmic pattern that emerges when words are arranged in such a way that their stressed an dunstressed syllables fall into a more or less regular sequence  
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metonymy   Another form of metaphor, very similar to synecdoche, in which a closely associated object is substituted for the ojbect or idea in mind  
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Mock Epic   Treating a frivolous or minor subject seriousy, expecially by using the machinery and devices of the epic descriptions of armor, battles, extended similes, etc.  
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Ambiguity   Multiple meanins of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage  
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aphorism   a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle  
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atmosphere   The emotinoal nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly the author's choice of objects that are described  
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caricature   A verbal description, the purpose of which is to distort a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics  
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clause   A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb  
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Homily   Means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice  
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Mood   The prevailing atmosphere or emotionoal aura of a work  
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