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12th Grade
04/24/2014

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Melodrama
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A dramatic form characterized by excessive sentiment, exaggerated emotion, sensational and thrilling action, and an artificially happy ending.[image]

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Metaphor
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A comparison between two things which are essentially dissimilar. Usually implied rather than directly stated.

 

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Meter
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Any regular pattern of rhythm based on stressed and unstressed syllables

 

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Monologue

 

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An extended speech by one person.

 

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Mood
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The overall emotional atmosphere of a scene or situation

 

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Mystery
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A suspense story which contains a crime and a solution by a detective

 

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Myth
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Applies particularly to a story connected with the religion of a primitive civilization. Usually about gods or superhuman beings and are invented to explain certain beliefs or some aspect of nature.

 

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Narrative
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The story or account itself

 

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Narration
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The telling of a story

 

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Narrator
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The person telling the story

 

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Objective
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Not about the thoughts of the speaker or writer; giving the facts as they are without bias.

 

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Objective POV

 

 

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Objective POV

 

The narrator knows only what can be heard and seen from outside the characters' thoughts and emotions.

 

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Octave
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An eight line stanza

 

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Ode
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A lyric poem of some length, serious in subject and dignified in style

 

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Omniscient POV

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 God-like scope; able to enter the mind of any character at any time to reveal his thoughts, feelings, and beliefs.

 

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Onomatopoeia
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The use of words which sound like what they mean

 

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Oxymoron
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Two contradictory words placed side by side for emphasis

 

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