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12th Grade
12/13/2011

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Aesthetic
Definition
appealing to the senses, the look of something
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Allegory
Definition
story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself (Pilgrems Progress is an allegory for the soul, in which every part of the tale represents some feature of the spiritual world and the struggles of an individual to lead a christian life)
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Analogy
Definition
a comparison usually involving two or more symbolic parts (I am to you as peanut butter is to jelly
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Antihero
Definition
a protagonist who is markedly unheropis (weak, cowardly, dishonest)
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coinage
Definition
a new word one invented on the spot (oh man you pulled a wilson)
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colloquialism
Definition
word or phrase used in everyday english that is not a school book word (I'm toasted)
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complex
Definition
there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words, multiple layers
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euphamism
Definition
a word that takes the place of a harsher word (using passed away rather than died)
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free verse
Definition
peotry written without a specific rhyme scheme or pattern
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masculine rhyme
Definition
a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable
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Omniscient Narrator
Definition
third person narrator who sees like god into each character's mind and understands all of the action going on
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Parable
Definition
Like a fable or an allegory meant to instruct
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Parallelism
Definition
repeated syntactical similarities used for effect
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Persona
Definition
the narrator in a non- first person novel (get some of the author's personality)
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Rhapsody
Definition
an intensly passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise
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subjective
Definition
personal view of a single observor interiorally
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subjunctive mood
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setting up a hypothetical situation (if I were you)
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suspension of disbelief
Definition
the demand of theatre audiences to accept the limitations of staging and supply details with imagination
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tragic flaw
Definition
the weakness of character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise
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