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Literature-Notes Chapter 5

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Apostrophe   show
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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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Connotation   show
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Dynamic Character   show
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Denotation   show
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Hyperole   show
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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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show The vantage point from which an author presents a story  
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2nd Person Point of View   show
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3rd Person Objective 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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Metonymy   show
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Static Character   show
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Symbol   show
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show the backgroud against which action takes place  
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Stock Character   show
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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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show a figure that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate ofjects with human form; the representing of imaginary creatures or things as having human personalities, intelligence, and emotions  
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Regionalism   show
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Transferred   show
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show A central idea  
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show An adjective used to limit a noun that is really does not logically modify (ex "foreign policy is domestic policy, and the "foreign minister" and "foreign office" are not at all foreign)  
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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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