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| The language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 A.D. |
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| An imaginary story that has become an accepted part of the cultural or religious tradition of a group or society. Myths are often used to explain natural phenomena. Almost every culture has some sort of myth to account for the creation of the world and its inhabitants. |
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| The Anglo-Saxon language spoken in what is now England from approx 450-1150 AD |
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| novels written for mass consumption, often emphasizing exciting and titillating plots |
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| A synonym for view or feeling; also a refined and tender emotion in literature. |
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| A saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth |
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| A literacy form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response. |
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| a figure of speech that compares unlike objects |
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| the work of poets, particularly those of the seventeenth century, that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life. |
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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry. |
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| a figure of speech that uses the came of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. |
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| a parody of traditional epic form. It usually treats a frivolous topic with extreme seriousness, using conventions such as invocations to the Muse, action-packed battle scenes, and accounts of heroic exploits. |
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| The general form, pattern and manner of expression of a work of literature. |
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| A quick succession of images or impressions used to express an idea. |
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| The emotional tone in a work of literature. |
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| A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature. |
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| a phrase, idea or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. |
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| one of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts. The imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer. |
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| a form of verse or prose that tells a story |
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| a term often used as a synonym for realism; also a view of experience that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic. |
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| a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before. |
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| A novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group. |
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| a work of fiction of roughly 20,000 to 50,000 words- longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel. |
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| A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings twoard the subject. |
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| a narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of a story. |
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| The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning. |
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| an eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem. |
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| A term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect. |
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| a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived. |
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| a statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true. |
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| a version of a text put into simpler, everyday words |
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| an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject. |
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| a work of literature dealing with rural life. |
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| faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects |
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| that element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow |
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| A verse with five poetic feet per line |
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| A sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end. The particulars in the sentence are presented before the idea they support. |
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| The role or facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, a viewer, or the world at large. |
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| A figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics. |
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| A episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. |
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| the interrelationship among the events in the story; the plot line is the pattern of events, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. |
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| the relation in which a narractor or speaker stands to the story or subject matter of a poem. A story told in first person has an internal point of view; an observer uses an external point of view. |
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| The grammar for meter and rhythm in poetry |
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| the main character in a work of literaure |
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| Also called "pen name" or "nom de plume," its a false name or alias used by writers. |
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| a humorous play on words, using similar-sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings. |
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| a four-line poem or a four line unit of a longer poem |
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| the depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration for effect. |
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| the language of a work and its style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience. |
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| language that conveys a speaker's attitude or opinion with regard to a particular subject |
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| the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry. |
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| the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry. |
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| the pattern of rhymes within a given poem. |
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| the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry |
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| French for a novel in which historical events and actual people appear under the guise of fiction. |
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| an extended narrative about improbable events and extrodinary people in exotic places |
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| a sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt; different from irony which is more subtle |
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| a literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible often for the purpose of inducing change. |
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| The act of determining the meter of a poetic line. The pattern is called scansion. If a verse doesn't "scan" its meter is irregular. |
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| a term that describes characters' excessive emotional response to experience; also nauseatingly nostalgic and mawkish(effusively or insincerely emotional) |
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| the total environment for the action in a novel or play. It includes time, place, historical milieu (environmental condition), and social, political, and even spiritual circumstances. |
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| a figurative comparison using the words like or as |
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| A popular form of verse consisting of fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme. |
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| a group of two or more lines in poetry combined according to subject matter, rhyme, or some other plan |
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| a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind. |
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| the manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, forms sentences, and creates a structure to convey ideas. |
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| a subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot. |
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| the implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature. |
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| the use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object. |
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| a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole, or the whole signifies the part. When the name of a material stands for the thing itself, that too is synecdoche. |
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| the organization of language into meaningful structure; every sentence has a particular syntax, or pattern of words. |
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| the main idea of meaning, often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built. |
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| a character whose name appears in the title of the novel or play; also known as the eponymous character |
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| the author's attitude toward the subject being written about. The tone is the characteristic emotion that pervades a work or part of a work- in other words the spirit or quality that is the work's emotional essence. |
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| a discrepancy between the true meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the written or spoken words. |
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| similar to the truth; the quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is. |
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| a synonym for poetry. Also a group of lines in a song or poem; also a single line of poetry |
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| the structural form of a line of verse as revealed by the number of feet it contains. |
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| a french verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes. |
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| the real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker. IN grammar, active voice and passive voice refer to the use of verbs. A verb is in the active voice when it expresses an actino performed by its subject. A verb is in the passive voice whicn it expresses an action performed upon its subject or when the subject is the result of the action. |
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| the quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by their unexpectedness; the power to comment subtly and pointedly on the foibles of the passing scene. |
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