Literary Terms
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| show | A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said.
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | Words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for the reader.
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| show | A placing in nearness or contiguity, or side by side, often done in order to compare/contrast phrases, or ideas.
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| show | A statement that seems self-contradictory, but in reality expresses a possible truth.
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| Satire | show 🗑
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| show | Where one imitates or mocks another work or type of literature.
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| show | A method of presentation in which the writer explicitly describes a character, situation, or event.
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| show | The writer presents the character in action, allowing the reader to draw his or her own conclusions about the personality of that character.
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| show | The level of formality in language as determined by context. Formal and Informal.
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| show | The recurrence of either an image, word, or idea in a text.
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| show | The implied or stated meaning of the work, stated in a complete sentence.
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| show | The predominant emotional characteristic of a work of literature, as experienced by the audience.
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| show | A form of metaphor in which language relating to human action is used to refer to non-human agents or objects,.
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| show | An implied discrepancy/difference between what is said and what is meant. Verbal, dramatic and situational.
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| show | Conversation between two or more people that advances the action, is consistent with the character of the speakers, and gives relief from passages essentially descriptive or expository.
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| show | Actively pointing out differences. Include juxtaposition and oxymoron.
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| show | An overused statement that has lost the strength of its meaning
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| show | An address to an absent or imaginary person who cannot respond to the speaker.
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| show | The repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device.
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| show | The repetition of the same grammatical form/structure in two or more parts of a sentence or a section of a text.
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| show | The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning.
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| show | A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem.
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| show | Unrhymed lines in the same meter, most commonly in iambic pentameter.
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| show | Poetry without rhyme or fixed metrical pattern.
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| show | Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.
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| show | The repetition of consonant sounds, either at the ends of words
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| show | A verse form consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with a fixed rhyme scheme.
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| Lyric Poetry | show 🗑
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| show | A poem that relates an event or a series of events.
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| show | The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next.
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