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| first paragraph in an essay that introduces the subjectmaterial to the reader. |
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| an explanation of the topic or purpose of a research paper. |
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| sentences at the beginning of the body paragraphs, which arethe main ideas that support the thesis. |
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| a statement or argument used in such a validation. |
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| paragraphs that help support the thesis statement. |
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| sentence after thesis that helps create clear definition ofsubject material. |
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| the result or outcome of an act or process. |
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| a kind of writing that explains, gives information, defines, or clarifiesan idea. |
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| the place in the plot at which the final resolution occurs. |
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| a struggle or clash between opposing characters, or between opposingforces. |
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| a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward thepoint of greatest interest. |
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| the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution ofsomething; culmination. |
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| the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has beenreached and the conflict has been resolved. |
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| a resolve or determination. |
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| a character struggles against some outside force. |
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| a struggle between opposing needs or desires or emotionswithin a single person. |
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| one such feature or trait; characteristic. |
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| the author directly tells the readers what the characterspersonality is like. |
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Indirect characterization |
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| reader has to come to the conclusion of the personality that the character has with the help of clues in the story. |
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| he leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary. |
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| a character that changes in important ways throughout the story. |
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| a character that does not change much in story. |
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| characters that have one or two personality traits. |
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| characters that have complex personalities. |
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| what makes a character do what they do. |
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| character that’s developed throughout the story. |
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| a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic. |
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| of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical. |
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| an all-knowing narrator tells the story |
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| First person point of view |
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| a character in the story tells the story. |
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| Limited third person point of view |
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| an unknown narrator tells the story. |
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| a particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning, feeling, spirit, etc. |
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| all the meanings, association, or emotion that a word suggests. |
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| the surroundings or environment of anything. |
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| a surrounding or pervading mood, environment, or influence. |
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| the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability. |
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| persuasion through emotion. |
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| a symbol or person the ready can identify with. |
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| when someone says something, but means something else. |
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| a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark. |
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| an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does. |
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| a similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based. |
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| also called storyline. The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. |
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| expressed or written in the native language of a place, as literary works. |
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| when the audience knows something that an actor on stage does not. |
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| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
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| the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. |
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| the writing and rewriting of a paragraph to make better to understand. |
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| essays written to be more personal. |
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| essay done for more professional reasons. |
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| writing that shows the differences and similarities between two ideas. |
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| the act of persuading or the state of being persuaded. |
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| expressing a quality of the word it modifies. |
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| a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious. |
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| a story marked by or dealing with one's own experiences or life history; of or in the manner of an autobiography. |
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| a story of or pertaining to a person's life. |
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| a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. |
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| writing of what the writer wants to. |
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| the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration. |
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| the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality. |
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| a tale or legend originating and traditional among a people or folk. |
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| a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing. |
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| a novel or other prose narrative depicting heroic or marvelous deeds, pageantry, romantic exploits. |
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| a dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction. |
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| a continuous, systematic narrative of past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person. |
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| a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion. |
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| any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. |
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| a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared. |
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| a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance. |
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| giving something that is not a living character a living characteristic |
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| the use of a language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person or experience |
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| a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry |
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| a group of syllables constitutiong a metrical unit of a verse |
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| a character who has many stereotypes |
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| minor or simple characters with little description |
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| writing that is intended to recreate a person, place or thing |
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Symobls that people can easly pick out |
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| Comparing two things that might not work out |
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| The line or lines that are repeated in verse, chorus or song |
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| The basis unt or measurement metrical verse |
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poety that does not have aregular meter or rhyme scheme |
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| A distinctive system or patter of metrical structure and verse composistion , sounds like perfect rhymes that are not exact |
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| a term used form words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound corresponding but are not perfect rhymes |
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rhyme between a word within a line and another either at the same line or within another line |
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| a spreading of idease information or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an insitution a cause or a person |
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| to change from prose to metrical form |
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| clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot |
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| an apparnet contradiction that is actually true |
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a tendecny to set rigid high standards |
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| the reasons that compel a character to act as he or she does |
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| fiction that is written but less important than other writings |
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when you take out important facts from a reading or essay |
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| all the meanings associations or emotions that a word suggests |
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| when a writer or speaker says one thing but really means the opposite |
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| when what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate |
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| a word or phrase that describer one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
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| a person place thing or event stands bother for itself and for something beyond itself |
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| the way we seething in a new way |
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| is a mtertical foot, or unit of measure, consisting of an unstressed sylable followed by a stressed syllable |
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| the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem or story |
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| the tepetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another |
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| that uses of word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning |
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| the attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character |
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| a comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects |
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| irony in poems suggesting a new meaning |
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| a theme that can be understood anywhere |
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| the intentional repeating of a sound word phrase line or idea in order to create a musical or rhythmic effect build suspense add emphasis or otherwise give unity to language |
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| the repetition of words phrases or sentences that have the same grammatical structure of the restate a similar idea |
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