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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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