Literary Terms
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| Figurative language | show 🗑
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| show | A fact or idea stated directly.
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| show | The attitudes and feelings associated with a word. Negative or positive.
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| Metaphor | show 🗑
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| Image/Imagery | show 🗑
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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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| show | A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
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| show | Where one imitates or mocks another work or type of literature.
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| show | A representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect.
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| Denotation | show 🗑
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| show | A method of presentation in which the writer explicitly describes a character, situation, or event.
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| Indirect Presentation | show 🗑
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| show | The author's reading public; individuals to which one's work is being directed.
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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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| Theme | show 🗑
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| show | The predominant emotional characteristic of a work of literature, as experienced by the audience.
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| show | The attitude of an author/speaker towards his or her subject matter and office.
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| show | Language that aims to make vivid a place, object, character, mental/physical sensation, or group.
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| show | A metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences, sections, or throughout a whole text.
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| show | A comparison of two unlike things in which a word of comparison (often like or as) is used.
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| Personification | show 🗑
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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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| Symbol | show 🗑
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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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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| Contrast | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| show | A scene in a story or novel that returns the reader to a time earlier than the main action.
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| Cliché | show 🗑
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| show | An address to an absent or imaginary person who cannot respond to the speaker.
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| Repetition | show 🗑
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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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| Euphemism | show 🗑
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| show | The persona expressing ideas in a piece of poetry.
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| Stanza | show 🗑
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| show | The general flow of words according to their length, sequence, punctuation, or combinations of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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| show | A metrical line of five metric feet or units, each made up of an unstressed then a stressed syllable
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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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| show | A short poem with one speaker which expresses personal thoughts or feelings.
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| show | A poem that relates an event or a series of events.
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| show | A long narrative that tells of the deeds and adventures of a hero or heroine.
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| show | The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next.
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