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| Reference to something outside work, often well-known historical/literary event, person or work |
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| A speaker's/author's/character's disposition toward of opinion of a subject |
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| Items/parts that make up larger picture/story |
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Any of several possible vantage points from which a story is told
Can be: omniscient, limited to a single character, or limited to several characters, first or third person |
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| General phrase for linguistic devices of techniques author can use |
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| Seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule, usually comedy exposing errors |
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| Background to story, physical location of story |
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| A directly expressed comparison using "like", "as" or "than" |
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Management of language for a specific effect
Planning or placement of elements to achieve and effect |
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Arrangement of matericals within a work
Relationship of parts of a work to the whole |
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| Story in which people, things and events have another meaning |
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| Multiple meanings a literary work may communicate |
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| Direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present |
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| Implications of a word or phrase (opposed to denotation) |
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| Device of style or subject matter so often used it becomes recognized means of expression |
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| Dictionary meaning of a word |
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| Question asked for effect, not in expectation of a reply |
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| Speech in which a character who is alone speaks his or her thoughts aloud |
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| Conventional pattern, expression, character or idea |
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| Form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them |
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| The theme, meaning or position that writes understakes to prove or support |
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| Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words |
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| Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds |
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| Four-line stanze rhymed abcb with four feet in lines on and three and three feet in lines two and four |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| Stress, syllable given more prominence in pronunciation that its neighbours |
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| Term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondance but are not perfect rhymes |
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| A poem about dawn, a morning love song or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn |
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| A fairly short narractive poem written in songlike stanza |
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| Repetition at close intervals of the final consoncant sounds of accented syllables or important words |
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| Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme |
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| Poetry having a primary purpose to teach or preach |
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| The representation through language of sense experience |
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| A rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occur within the line |
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| A situation or a use of language involving some kind of inconruity or discrepancy |
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| A figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said |
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| A device by which the author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker (or by a speaker) ina literary work |
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| A situation in which there is an incrongruity between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate/anticipated |
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| Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet |
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| Sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde |
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| A rhyme in which the repeated accented vowel sound is in the final sullable of the words involved |
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| A figure of pseech in which an implicit comparison is made between two unlike things |
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| A figure of speech in which some significant aspect of detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth |
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| A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements |
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| A situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements |
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| A figure of speech in which an apparently self-contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true |
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| A figure of speech in which human attributes are given to an animal, an object or a concept |
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| A restatement of the content of a poem designed to makes its prose meaning as clear as possible |
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| Total experience communicated by a poem, includes all those dimension of experience by which a poem communicates (sensuous, emotional, imaginative and intellectual) |
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| A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what ones means with less force than the occasion warrants |
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