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ENG 356-20th Century Brit Lit
Literary Terms
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Undergraduate 3
03/02/2010

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Drama-Absurdist Drama
Definition
Play that depicts life as meaningless, senseless, uncertain
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Drama-Act
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One of the main divisions of a play
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Language-Adage
Definition
Wise saying, proverb, expresses an observation or experience about life
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Shakespeare-Alarum
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Stage Direction in a shakespeare play indicating the coming of a battle

 

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Poetry-Alexandrine
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Verse from France with lines of 12 syllables
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Literature-Allegory
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Characters, events, objects, and ideas have secondary or symbolic meanings
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Language-Alliteration
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Repetition of consonant sounds
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Literature-Allusion
Definition
Reference to a historical event or mythical/literary figure
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Language-Anadiplosis
Definition
Figure of speech in which a word or phrase at the end of a sentence, clause, verse, etc. is repeated at the beginning of the next
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