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Literature-Notes Chapter 5

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Allusion   show
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show A figure of speech in which someone (usually but not always absent) some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present.  
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Characterization   show
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show Originally the term, cognate and almost synonymous with "concept" or "conception" implied something conceived in the mind  
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show The emotional implications ans associations that words may carry, as distiguished from their denotation meaning  
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Dynamic Character   show
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Denotation   show
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show Exaggeration  
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show E.M. Forster's term for a character constructed around a single idea or quality, such as the humours characters of the 17th centruy stage  
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show The physical setting of some action. It denotes geographical and scenic qualities rather than the less tangible aspects of setting  
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Point of View   show
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1st Person Point of View   show
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3rd Person Point of View   show
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show A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true  
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show an analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more of the qualities of the second  
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show the substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself.  
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show A character who changes little if at all  
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Symbol   show
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show the backgroud against which action takes place  
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show Conventional character types  
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show A figure in which a similarity between two objects is directly expresed  
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show a troupe in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part  
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Symbolism   show
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Personification   show
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show fidelity to a particular geographical area  
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Transferred   show
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Theme   show
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Transferred Epithet   show
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show A common figure of speech in which the literal sense of what is said falls detectably short of (or "under") the magnitude of what is being talked about  
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