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| show | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities.
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| alliteration | show 🗑
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| allusion | show 🗑
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| show | deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way- this is done on purpose by the author, when it is not done on purpose, it is vagueness, and
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| analogy | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer’s point more coherent
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| show | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual
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| show | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist in the story
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| show | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. He or she may lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples
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| archetype | show 🗑
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| show | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together
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| show | the author reveals to the reader what the
character is like by describing how the character looks and dresses, by letting the reader hear what the character says, by revealing the character’s private thoughts and feelings, by revealing the characters eff
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| show | the author tells us directly what the
character is like: sneaky, generous, mean to pets and so on. Romantic style literature relied more heavily on this form.
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| static character | show 🗑
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| show | is one who changes in some important way as a
result of the story’s action.
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| cliche | show 🗑
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| show | in general, a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character or characters.
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| connotation | show 🗑
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| show | the actual dictionary meaning
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| show | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
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| show | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area.
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| show | a speaker or writer’s choice of words
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| show | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language , which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society
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| epithet | show 🗑
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| essay | show 🗑
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| fable | show 🗑
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| farce | show 🗑
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| figurative language | show 🗑
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| flashback | show 🗑
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| show | A character who acts as contrast to another character
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| foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| show | poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
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| show | a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement, for effect. “If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times….”
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| imagery | show 🗑
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| verbal irony | show 🗑
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| show | takes place when there is a discrepancy between what is expected to
happen, or what would be appropriate to happen, and what really does happen
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| dramatic irony | show 🗑
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| juxtaposition | show 🗑
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| show | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker.
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| metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | An atmosphere created by a writer’s diction and the details selected.
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| motif | show 🗑
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| motivation | show 🗑
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| show | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. “Pop.” “Zap.”
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| oxymoron | show 🗑
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| show | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life
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| show | a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a kind of truth
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| show | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures.
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| show | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style
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| personification | show 🗑
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| show | one of the characters tells the story
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| show | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters.
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| objective point of view | show 🗑
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| show | the central character in a story, the one who initiates or drives the action
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| show | a “play on words” based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things.
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| quatrain | show 🗑
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| show | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem.
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| show | a rise and fall of the voice produced by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in language.
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| show | Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse
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| show | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer
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| show | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change.
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| show | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as , than, or resembles.
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| show | a long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage
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| style | show 🗑
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| suspense | show 🗑
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| symbol | show 🗑
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| theme | show 🗑
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| show | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization
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| show | in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end.
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| show | a statement that says less than what is meant.
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