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| the occurence of the same letter or sound at the beggining of adjacent or closely connected words | show 🗑
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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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| show | couplet
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| show | denouement
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| A particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group | show 🗑
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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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| A group of syllables constituting a metrical unit. In English poetry it consists of stressed and unstressed syllables, while in ancient classical poetry it consists of long and short syllables | show 🗑
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| show | foreshadowing
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| show | free verse
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| A category of artistic composition, in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style or subject matter | show 🗑
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| a male or female who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding acheivements, or noble qualities | show 🗑
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| Exaggerated staements or claims not meant to be taken literally | show 🗑
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| show | lamb
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| show | irony
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| a short poem, usually rich in imagery, expressing personal emotions | show 🗑
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| show | metaphor
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| show | analogy
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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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| show | bibliography
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| show | biography
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| show | carpe diem
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| show | connotation
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| The point in a play or story when a crucial conflict takes place, determining the outcome of the plot | show 🗑
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| show | diction
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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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| show | epilogue
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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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| Belonging to or redolent of the Dark Ages; portentously gloomy or horrifying | show 🗑
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| show | imagery
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| The atmosphere or pervading tone of something, especially a work of art | show 🗑
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| Negative words are used to create an unfavorable opinion of the competition in the viewer's mind | show 🗑
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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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| The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form | show 🗑
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| show | point of view
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| rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration | show 🗑
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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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| show | personification
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| the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc. | show 🗑
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| the principal character in a work of fiction; a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | show 🗑
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| correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines | show 🗑
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| show | rhyme scheme
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| show | rhythm
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| show | round chracter
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| show | setting
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| show | static chracter
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| an introduction to a play | show 🗑
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| show | pun
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| show | satire
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| show | simile
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| show | situational irony
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| An instruction in the text of a play, esp. one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting | show 🗑
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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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| show | utopia
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| is an "evil" character in a story | show 🗑
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