The Comprehensive List of Literary Terms for English 10 (B.C.)
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| show | The repetition of initial consonant sounds
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| show | the principal character in opposition to the protagonist or hero of a narrative or drama
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| show | a piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not heard by the other actors on stage
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| show | a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
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| show | the spectators or listeners assembled at a performance
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| show | a personal and often unreasoned judgment for or against one side in a dispute; a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
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| show | a sequence according to time of occurrence
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| show | light and humorous drama with a happy ending; a popular entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance
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| show | occurs when one is confronted with a problem that presents difficult choices. One must make a decision one way or another
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| show | tension usually created by the protagonist and the antagonist. Usually written as 'Man versus Man', 'Man versus Himself', 'Man versus Society', etc.
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| show | the literal dictionary meaning(s) of a word as distinct from an associated idea or connotation
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| show | a statement that represents something in words; the act of explaining something using a variety of adjectives and imagery
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| Dialogue | show 🗑
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| Direct Presentation | show 🗑
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| show | a prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action
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| show | in literature or drama, a character who undergoes a permanent change in outlook or character during the story
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| Exposition | show 🗑
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| show | a mode of writing in which the purpose of the author is to inform, explain, describe, or define his or her subject to the reader
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| show | the events of a dramatic or narrative plot following the climax
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| show | uses 'me', 'my', or 'I'; the narrator does participate in the action of the story. When reading stories in the first person, we need to realize that what the narrator is recounting might not be the objective truth
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| show | a literary or cinematic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological order of a narrative
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| Foil | show 🗑
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| Free Verse | show 🗑
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| show | a category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterized by a particular form, style, or content
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| Image | show 🗑
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | develops the character through what s/he says, does, thinks and feels. We also learn about him/her through what other characters in the story say and feel about him/her. We then interpret his/her character for ourselves.
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| show | a characteristic language of a particular group; specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject. For example, there is medical jargon and legal jargon
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| Limited Omniscient Point of View | show 🗑
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| show | of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses subjective thoughts and feelings, often in a songlike style or form
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | the poet's or persona's attitude in style or expression toward the subject
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| Narration | show 🗑
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| show | a construct created in a suitable medium (speech, writing, images) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events
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| show | a statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense, yet can be seen as perhaps, or indeed, true when viewed from another angle
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| show | a type of metaphor in which distinctive human characteristics are attributed to an animal, object, or idea
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| show | communication intended to induce belief or action
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| show | providing sound reasoning or argument
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| show | the story that is told in a novel or play or movie, etc.; the sequence of events that occur in a story
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| show | the attitude or outlook of a narrator or character in a piece of literature, a movie, or another art form
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| show | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
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| show | the main character in a drama or other literary work
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| show | the pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines. For example, 'a,b,a,b' or 'a,b,b,a'
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| show | the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in accentual verse or of long and short syllables in quantitative verse
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| show | the events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax
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| show | witty language used to convey insults or scorn; cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound
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| show | a literary work which exposes and ridicules human vices or folly. For example, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'The Daily Report' are satirical television shows.
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| show | the time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place. Setting can include: time and place; the historical, geographical, political, economic, social, or religious background; and, the atmosphere or tone of the story
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| show | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions
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| show | a fourteen-line poem
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| show | a literary character that remains basically unchanged throughout a work
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| show | a character in a story that represents a widely held but fixed oversimplified image of a particular type of person or thing; a person or thing appearing to conform to generalized images of certain groups of people
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| show | the poet's individual creative process, as determined by choices involving diction, figurative language, rhetorical devices, sounds, and rhythmic patterns
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| Symbol | show 🗑
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| show | the central idea of a piece of literature
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| show | a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great person; a drama, usually in verse, portraying a conflict between a strong-willed protagonist and a superior force such as destiny, culminating in death or disaster
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