Literary terms
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| Alliteration | Repetition of two or more consonant sounds in successive words.
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| Assonance | Repetition of two or more vowel sounds in successive words.
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| Connotation | An association that a word, image, or phrase may carry.
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| Denotation | The literal dictionary meaning of a word.
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| Epic | A long narrative poem....tracing the adventures of mythic hero. example=Odyssey
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| Epiphany | A moment of insight, discovery, or revelation.
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| Genre | Combination of literry form and suject matter. example=science fiction, gothic, horror, detective, etc.
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| Lyric | Short poem expressing thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, Often written in the first person.
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| Monologue | An extended speach by a single character.
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| Motivation | What the character in the story wants.
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| Motif | An element that recurs significantly throughout a narrative.
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| Narrative | A poem that tells a story.
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| Onomatopoeia | Literary device that attempts to represent a thing or action that imitates a sound that associated with it. (e.g. crash, bang, etc.)
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| Persona | Latin for "Mask". A fictitious character created by the author to be the speaker, always the narrator.
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| Setting | The time and place of a literary work.
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| Subgenres | A subcategory within a particular genre: The academic mystery is a subgenre of the mystery novel.
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| Novel | An extended work of fictional prose narrative.
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| Fiction | From the Latin "Ficio" Any literary work that made up by the authors imagination.
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| Nonfiction | A genre in which actual events are presented.
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| Apprenticeship Novel "Bildungsroman" | German for novel growth or development. Depicts a youth who struggles toward maturity. (Dicken's David Copperfield)
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| Epistolary Novel | A novel in which the story is told by ways of letters.
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| Picaresque Novel | Narrative that presents the life of a likable scoundral who is at odds with respectable society.
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| Novella | A prose narrative longer than a short story but shorter than a novel.
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| Prose | The ordinary form of spoken or written language.
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| Subplot - Double Plot | A second story or plotline that is complete and interesting.
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