Literary vocab
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words or syllables. EX: Big Brown Bear
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| show | A comparison between two things.
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| Antagonist | show 🗑
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| show | Repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words. EX: Crumbling Thunder
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| show | Feeling created for the reader by a work of literature.
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| Antihero | show 🗑
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| show | Any attribution of human characteristics to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts
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| show | A chronological inconsistency in some arrangement
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| Aesthetic | show 🗑
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| show | Descent from a higher to a lower emotional point.
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| Archaism | show 🗑
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| show | Not expected to produce an immediate or practical result
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| Aside | show 🗑
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| Accent | show 🗑
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| Aphorism | show 🗑
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| show | Rhyme in which words contain similar sounds but do not rhyme perfectly.
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| show | Lyric/Song delivered at dawn, involving lovers who must part or one lover who asks the other to wake up.
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| show | Inflated, extravagant, often ranting language.
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| Ballad | show 🗑
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| Black Humor | show 🗑
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| Burlesque | show 🗑
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| show | Unrhymed verse but usually referring to unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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| Classic | show 🗑
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| Cacophony | show 🗑
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| Colloquialism | show 🗑
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| show | Figure of speech involving an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently high dissimilar things.
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| show | Such a modulation in reading aloud as implied by the structure and ordering of words and phrases in written text.
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| show | A newly invented word, phrase, usage, etc.
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| Catharsis | show 🗑
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| Couplet | show 🗑
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | Italian for "song". A section, often numbered, of a long poem.
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| Chorus | show 🗑
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| Consonance | show 🗑
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| show | An exaggeration or other distortion of an individual's prominent features or characteristics that makes the person appear ridiculous.
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| Caesura | show 🗑
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| Character | show 🗑
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| show | Authors making their characters "come to life" by describing thoughts and emotions as well as physical attributes, actions, conversations, and so forth.
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| show | Point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
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| show | A humorous scene or passage inserted into an otherwise serious work.
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| show | Broadly defined, any amusing and entertaining work.
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| Conflict | show 🗑
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| Deus ex Machina | show 🗑
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| Didactic Writing | show 🗑
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| show | A speaker's word choice.
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| Dissonance | show 🗑
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| Doggerel | show 🗑
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| Decorum | show 🗑
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| Dirge | show 🗑
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| show | A word's literal meaning(s).
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| Euphony | show 🗑
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| Epic | show 🗑
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| show | Poem that laments the loss of someone or something, but may also be used even more broadly to refer to any serious, reflective poem.
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| show | A mild or indirect word or expression for one too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
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| Editorializing | show 🗑
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| show | Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines in verse.
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| End-Stopped Line | show 🗑
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| Epiphany | show 🗑
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| English/Shakespearean Sonnet | show 🗑
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| show | Language that employs one or more figures of speech to supplement or modify the literal, denotative meanings of words with additional connotations.
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| show | Technique of introducing into a narrative material that prepares the reader or audience for future events, actions, or revelations.
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| Foot | show 🗑
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| 1st Person Narrator | show 🗑
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| Free Verse | show 🗑
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| Farce | show 🗑
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| Foil | show 🗑
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| Gothic | show 🗑
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| Genre | show 🗑
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| Villanelle | show 🗑
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| show | Excessive pride that brings about the protagonist's downfall.
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| show | A trope employing deliberate, emphatic exaggeration, usually for comic or ironic effect.
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| show | A metrical foot in poetry that consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
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| In Medias Res | show 🗑
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| show | Rendering stream of consciousness by reproducing a character's mental flow.
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| show | Reversal of the normal order of words.
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| show | A contradiction between appearance and reality.
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| show | Refers to the language used to convey a visual picture.
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| show | 14 line sonnet consisting of two parts: the octave, 8 lines with the rhyme scheme abbaabba; and the sestet, 6 lines usually following the rhyme scheme cdecde.
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| show | A sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions.
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| show | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
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| Meter | show 🗑
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| Metonymy | show 🗑
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| show | The combination of personality and situation that impels a character to behave the way he or she does.
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| Mystery | show 🗑
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| show | Speaker through whom an author presents a narrative, often but not always a character in the work.
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| Nemesis | show 🗑
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| Octave | show 🗑
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| show | Both the reader and author observe the situation either through the senses and thoughts of more than one character, or through an overarching godlike perspective that sees and knows everything that happens.
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| Oxymoron | show 🗑
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| show | Presents only the external actions and not the character's thoughts and feeling
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| Onomatopoeia | show 🗑
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| show | A statement that seems self-contradictory or nonsensical on the surface but that, upon closer examination, may express an underlying truth.
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| show | Information that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence.
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| show | A work of literature portraying an idealized version of country life.
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| show | Action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.
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| show | Main character in a work; usually also the hero or heroine, but sometimes an antihero.
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| Persona | show 🗑
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| show | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.
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| Parable | show 🗑
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| show | Quality in a work or a portion thereof that makes the reader experience pity, sorrow, or tenderness.
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| show | A complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause.
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| show | The perspective from which a speaker or writer recounts a narrative or presents information.
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| show | 4 line stanza.
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| show | An effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.
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| show | A song or hymn of mourning.
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| show | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.
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| Refrain | show 🗑
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| show | A measured flow of words and signifying the basic beat or pattern in language that is established by stressed syllables, unstressed syllables, and pauses.
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| Rhyme | show 🗑
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| Rhyme Scheme | show 🗑
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| Run-on Line | show 🗑
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| Structure | show 🗑
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| show | Judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts.
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| Stream of Consciousness | show 🗑
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| Syntax | show 🗑
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| show | The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, using like or as.
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| Suspension of Disbelief | show 🗑
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| Soliloquy | show 🗑
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| show | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity.
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| show | A grouped set of lines in a poem.
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| show | A fictional character based on a common literary or social stereotype.
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| show | The central topic, subject, or concept.
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| show | The attitude of the author toward the reader, audience, or subject matter of a literary work.
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| Tragedy | show 🗑
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| show | A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something.
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| show | A paper or monograph written by a degree-seeking candidate in fulfillment of academic requirements.
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| show | A character trait in a tragic hero or heroine that brings about his or her downfall.
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| Utopia | show 🗑
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| show | An individual line of poetry or a stanza of a poem or song.
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