Literature terms
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| Denotation | show 🗑
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| Epic | show 🗑
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| an intuitive flash grasp of reality achieved in a quick flash of recognition in which something, usually simple and commonplace, is seen in a new light. | show 🗑
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| show | Used to designate the types or categories into which literary works are grouped according to form, technique, or , sometimes, subject matter.
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| show | Genre classification
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| Lyric | show 🗑
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| show | A composition giving the discourse of one speaker; Represents what someone would speak aloud in a situation with listeners, although they do not speak
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| Motivation | show 🗑
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| Motif | show 🗑
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| show | Motivation
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| show | An account of events; anything that is narrated
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| Onomatopoeia | show 🗑
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| show | a mask. Widely used to refer to a "second self" created by an author and through whom the narrative is told
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| can not be a character, but "an implied author"; that is, a voice not directly the author's but created by the author and through which the author speaks | show 🗑
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| show | The background against which action takes place.
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| The geographical location, its topography, scenery and such physical arrangements as the location of the windows and doors in a room | show 🗑
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| Novel | show 🗑
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| Element of a setting | show 🗑
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| show | Element of a setting
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| show | Narrative writing drawn from the imagination rather than from history or fact
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| the general environment of the characters, for example, religious, mental, moral, social and emotional conditions | show 🗑
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| Nonfiction | show 🗑
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| Apprenticeship Novel | show 🗑
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| Epistolary Novel | show 🗑
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| show | A tale or short story.
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| Subplot | show 🗑
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| show | One of the four chief types of composition; it's purpose is to explain something. In drama, it is the introductory material that creates the tone, gives the setting, introduces the characters and supplies other facts neccessary to understanding
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| show | The presentation of material in a work in such a way that later events are prepared for; can result from the establishment of a mood or atmosphere.
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| show | The struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces; provides interest, suspense and tension
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| may result in either tragedy or comedy | show 🗑
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| show | The part of a dramatic plot that has to do with the complication of the action. It begins with the exiciting force, gains in interest and power as the opposing groups come into conflict and proceeds to climax
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| show | The point at which the decisive action on which a plot willopposing forces that create the conflict interlock in the turn.
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| Climax | show 🗑
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| Falling Action | show 🗑
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| show | Literally,"unknotting." The final unraveling of a plot; the solution of a mystery; an explanation or outcome.
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| Protagonist | show 🗑
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| What are the four types of conflict? | show 🗑
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| show | The character directly opposed to the protagonist. A rival, opponent, or enemy of the protagonist
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| show | The central character in a work; the character who is the focus of interest
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| Antihero | show 🗑
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| Foil | show 🗑
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| Stock Character | show 🗑
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| Flat Character | show 🗑
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| Round Character | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words that have the opposite meaning
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| show | Intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words; It embodies one or more figures of speech
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| show | A figure of speech in which someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistant personage is directly addressed as though present.
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| Conceit | show 🗑
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| show | Exaggeration. The figure may be used to heighten effect, or it may be used for humor
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Metonymy | show 🗑
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| show | A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true; it teases the mind and tests the limits of language.
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| show | A figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence and emotions
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| Simile | show 🗑
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| Synecdoche | show 🗑
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| Transferred Epithet | show 🗑
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| Diction | show 🗑
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| show | The attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. May be: formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitude. Attitude of the author toward the audience
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| Mood | show 🗑
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| Symbolism | show 🗑
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside of the narrative itself; it represents one thing in the guise of another-an abstractionin that of a concrete image
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| show | a figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event or object
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| show | a dramatic convention by which an actor directly addresses the audience but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage.
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| show | any device or style or subject matter which has become, in its time and by reason of its habitual usage, a recognized means of literary expression, an accepted element in technique.
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| Deus ex Machina | show 🗑
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| show | A term from Horace, literally meaning "in the midst of things." It is applied to the literary technique of opening a story in the middle of the action and then supplying information about the beginning of the action through flashbacks and other devices.
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| show | A work or manner that blends censorious attitude with humor and wit for improving human institutions or humanity
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| Soliloquy | show 🗑
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| show | A poem almost invariably of fourteen lines and following one of several set rhyme schemes
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| Italian Sonnet | show 🗑
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| show | Four divisions are used: three quatrains( each with a rhyme scheme of its own, usually rhyming alternate lines) and a rhymed concluding couplet. Links rhymes amoung the quatrains. ( abab cdcd efef gg) or (bcbc cdcd ee)
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