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The Writer directly tells you about the character's personality
Ex: "Madame Dubois was Selfish" |
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| Device whereby a character's words or actions have one meaning for the other characters, but quite different meaning for the audience or reader |
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| Change and sometimes learn as a result of the events of the story |
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| Poem of lament or serious meditation |
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| Long narrative poem with a series of heroic exploits |
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Brief descriptive phrase used like a name
Ex: : "Ivan the Terrible" |
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Writing or speech that is not meant to be interpreted literally
Ex: "My black eyes are coals burning" |
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| Expression or word used imaginatively rather than literally, including apostrophe, metaphor, personification, simile etc. |
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| Section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate and event from an earlier time |
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| Have only one or two superficial character traits and are seens as predictable |
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| A character who serves as a contrast to another character |
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| The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action |
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Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern, but which has (a)varying rhythm that suits its meaning and (b) lines of varying lengths
Ex: "We pick
The bittersweet grapes
At harvest
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With leather worn hands" |
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| Japanese poem of 3 lines of 5,7,and 5 syllables |
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Exaggeration
Ex: He ate more than any other twelve men together |
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Using words or phrases that appeal to 1 of the 5 senses to create sensory experiences
Types: 1. Olfactory-smell
2. Visual
3Auditory
4. Tactile
5. Gustatory- taste
6.Kinesthetic- movement |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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the writer reveals the personality of characters by the following methods:
1. describing the character's physical appearance
2.describing the character's actions
3.telling what the characters say
4. showing how other characters treat the character |
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| Reversal of the regular word order in a sentence |
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Literary technique involving surprising, amusing,or interesting contradictions. Irony may involve differences between appearances and reality, expectations and result, or meaning and intention.
Ex: A character seeks wealth for happiness, but wealth results in his downfall |
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Placing two people, words, or actions side by side in order to heighten differences between them or to emphasize a point
Ex: On a television screen showing th eplanes hitting the win towers on 9/11, a bow in the corners shows Osama Bin Laden bragging about the event to his followers. |
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