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Vocab 4

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the ghostly shadow that haunts and follows its earthly counterpart; the negative or evil manifestation of what is actually on the "inside" of the haunted character   doppelganger  
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a sudden moment of understanding that causes a character to change or act in a certain way   epiphany  
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the use of an indirect, mild, delicate, inoffensive, or vague word or expression for one thought to be course, sordid, or otherwise unpleasant, offensive, or blunt.   euphemism  
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short, often witty statement presenting an observation or a universal truth   aphorism  
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device a writer uses to hint at a future course of action   foreshadowing  
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is an interruption in a story to tell about events that happened before the current action of the story   flashback  
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serious character flaw of the main character (protagonist)   hamartia  
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the act or habit of misusing words to comic effect. This usually results from ignorance or from confusion of words similar in sound but different in meaning, mainly polysyllabic words   malapropism  
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a play on words for humor   pun  
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a new word expressions, or uses   neologism  
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a statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it   non sequitur  
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the mian idea of a text, expressed directly or indirectly   theme  
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a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., esp. in a literary, artistic, or musical work   motif  
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presents the action and the characters' speech, without comment or emotion   objective point of view  
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presents the action and the charcters along with the author's personal view or opinion   subjective point of view  
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uses the pronoun I   first person point of view  
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uses the pronoun you   second person point of view  
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