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show | alliteration
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show | allusion
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the prevading tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art | show 🗑
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In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible | show 🗑
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A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas or a slow sentimental or romantic song | show 🗑
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show | blank verse
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show | climax
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A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protacted one | show 🗑
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Two lines of a verse, usually in the same mater and joined by rhyme, and that form a unit | show 🗑
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The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved | show 🗑
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show | dialect
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show | dialogue
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A character who undergoes an important and basic change in personality or outlook | show 🗑
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the part of a play or work of fiction in which the background to the main conflict is introduced | show 🗑
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a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral | show 🗑
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A character that is static and does not grow. One purpose of flat characters is to highlight the development of round characters. Flat characters may be one of several special types, such as stereotypes or stock characters. | show 🗑
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show | foot
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show | foreshadowing
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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | show 🗑
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show | genre
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show | hero/heroine
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show | hyperbole
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show | lamb
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A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result | show 🗑
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show | lyric poem
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show | metaphor
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A comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification | show 🗑
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A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | show 🗑
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A contrast or opposition between two things | show 🗑
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show | bandwagon appeal
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A list of the books of a specific author or publisher, or on a specific subject | show 🗑
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An account of someone's life written by someone else | show 🗑
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Used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future | show 🗑
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show | connotation
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show | crisis
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The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing | show 🗑
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The ability to understand and share the feelings of another | show 🗑
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show | epic
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A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened | show 🗑
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show | fiction
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The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such as way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions | show 🗑
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A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story | show 🗑
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show | gothic
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show | imagery
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show | mood
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show | name-calling
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Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view | show 🗑
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show | narritive
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show | nemesis
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an account, narrative, or representation of a subject which an author presents as fact | show 🗑
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show | paradox
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A quality that evokes pity or sadness | show 🗑
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show | personification
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3.The position from which something or someone is observed | show 🗑
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show | meter
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show | onomatopoeia
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conjoining contradictory terms | show 🗑
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1.A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet | show 🗑
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the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc | show 🗑
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show | plot
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show | protagonist
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correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines | show 🗑
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1.The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse | show 🗑
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show | rhythm
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is depicted with such psychological depth and detail that he or she seems like a "real" person | show 🗑
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the context and environment in which something is set | show 🗑
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Things happen to such a character without things happening within | show 🗑
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an introduction to a play | show 🗑
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a humorous play on words | show 🗑
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witty language used to convey insults or scorn | show 🗑
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a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds | show 🗑
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A type of irony emphasizing that human beings are enmeshed in forces beyond their comprehension and control. | show 🗑
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show | stage directions
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A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow | show 🗑
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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | show 🗑
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3.A long essay or dissertation involving personal research | show 🗑
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show | tone
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the main character in a tragedy | show 🗑
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an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal | show 🗑
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show | villian
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