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142 terms to "know for rest of life" is what my teacher describes

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Definition
show Thought, feeling, or idea  
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show Single time and single place in a play; a division within an act  
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Fiction   show
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show Repetition of vowel sounds in poetry  
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Blank Verse   show
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show Group of words containing a subject AND a verb  
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show Contradiction between what the audience knows and the characters know  
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Exposition   show
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show Verifiable and true  
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Literal Language   show
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Hubris   show
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Lyric poem   show
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show Reader's Response to a work of literature  
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show Reasons a character behaves the way she or he does  
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show Made-up story to explain a phenomenon of nature  
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show A fiction book of long, narrative prose  
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Onomatopoeia   show
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Oxymoron   show
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Resolution/Conclusion   show
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Rhyme Scheme   show
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show Outcome very different than what is expected  
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show Statement put forth by a writer to be proved  
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show "I" point of view: limited  
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2nd Person Narrator   show
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Omniscient Narrator   show
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show Perceived by one or more senses  
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Act   show
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show A division of literature  
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show Character in conflict with the protagonist  
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show Character is center stage alone and expresses thoughts and feelings  
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Autobiography   show
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Avert   show
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Ballad   show
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Biography   show
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Climax   show
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Comic Relief   show
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Dialogue   show
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show Character who changes; may grow or deteriorate  
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Epic   show
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show Simile running several lines in length  
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Epilogue   show
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show An "attempt" to write a formal opinion  
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show Study of the origins of words  
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External Conflict   show
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Internal Conflict   show
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show View or judgment not necessarily based on fact or knowledge  
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show Series of events after the climax and ending in the resolution  
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show Language not meant to be taken literally  
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Foot   show
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show Looking forward in the text  
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Glossary   show
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Haiku   show
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show An exaggeration  
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show A short/long foot  
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Index   show
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Irony   show
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Metaphor   show
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Tone   show
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Ode   show
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show Verb, noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection  
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Personification   show
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Phrase   show
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show Linear sequence of events in a story  
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Prologue   show
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Rising action (complication)   show
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show Smallest unit of meaning in a word  
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show Sentence without end- stopped punctuation  
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Simile   show
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show Paragraph of poetry  
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Static Character   show
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show Fixed image placed upon a group  
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show An affix added to the end of a word- beauti-FUL  
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show Unit of pronunciation with a single vowel sound  
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show Something that represents something else  
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Synonym   show
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Table of Contents   show
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3rd Person Narrator   show
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Drama   show
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show Genre of literature written inverse form  
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show Repetition of initial consonant sounds  
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Allusion   show
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Anachronism   show
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show Main character in a work of fiction  
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show A word that means the opposite  
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Aside   show
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Attribute (trait)   show
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Couplet   show
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show Creating a person, object, or animal to populate a story  
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Connotation   show
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show Literal meaning of words  
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Diction   show
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show Creation of a believable word in fiction  
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Elegy   show
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Enjambment   show
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Epiphany   show
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show Looking backward in the text  
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Foil   show
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show Poetry of uneven rhyme, line length and meter  
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Homonym   show
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show Words that appeal to any or all of the senses  
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I Medias Res   show
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Inciting Incident   show
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show A conclusion made based on text  
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show Language of trade, of a group  
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Memoir   show
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Meter   show
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Motif   show
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Narrative Poem   show
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show An apparent contradiction with a truth- parting is such a sweet sorrow  
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show Five feet per line  
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Point of view   show
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show Language written in ordinary form without metrical structure  
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show Four line stanza  
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show Repetitive stanza or chorus  
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Rhythm   show
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show A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter  
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Synesthesia   show
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Tercet   show
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show Writer or speaker says one thing and means something completely different  
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show  
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show Word that sounds the same but means something different  
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show Words that appeal to any or all of the senses  
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show Story begins "...in the middle of things..."  
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show Plot element at the beginning of a story that heats up the action  
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show A conclusion made based on text  
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show Language of trade, of a group  
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Memoir   show
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Meter   show
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show Recurring piece of theme  
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Narrative Poem   show
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show An apparent contradiction with a truth- parting is such a sweet sorrow  
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Pentameter   show
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show Angle of vision of the narrator  
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Prose   show
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Quatrain   show
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show Repetitive stanza or chorus  
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Rhythm   show
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Sonnet   show
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Synesthesia   show
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Tercet   show
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Verbal Irony   show
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Verse   show
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