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| a storyteller of any kind |
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| the perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes |
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| An implicit reference within a literary work to a historical or literary person, place, or event |
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| the pattern of sound created by the varying length and emphasis given to different syllables |
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| the rhythmic pattern created in a line of verse |
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| Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable |
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a person, animal, or any other thing with a personality that appears in a story |
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| The main character around whom the story revolves. |
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| The primary character or entity that acts to frustrate the goals of the protagonist. |
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| A brief digest of the paper's essential ideas in about one hundred words |
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| The comparison of one thing to another that does not use the terms “like” or “as.” |
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| The use of human characteristics to describe animals, things, or ideas |
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A technique in which one understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to another, usually more prevalent, understanding of the same situation. |
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A technique in which the author lets the audience or reader in on a character’s situation while the character himself remains in the dark. |
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| describes the essential details of a book or article. |
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| Language that brings to mind sense-impressions, especially via figures of speech. Sometimes is characteristic of a particular writer or work |
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| An object, character, figure, or color that is used to represent an abstract idea or concept. |
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| A fundamental and universal idea explored in a literary work |
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| The general atmosphere created in a story, or the narrator’s attitude toward the story or reader |
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| Alternating tetrameter and trimeter, usually iambic and rhyming. common in traditional folk poetry and song, enjoyed a revival in the Romantic period |
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A compact form of Japanese poetry written in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, respectively. |
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| A composition that is meant to be performed. The term often is used interchangeably with play (see below), but drama is a broader term that includes some forms that may not strictly be defined as plays, such as radio broadcasts, comedy sketches, and opera. |
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| A short poetic composition that describes the thoughts of a single speaker. |
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| A short narrative that illustrates a moral by means of allegory |
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| A lighthearted play characterized by humor and a happy ending |
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A serious play that ends unhappily for the protagonist. |
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| A speech, often in verse, by a lone character. |
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| A modern, nontraditional performance space in which the audience surrounds the stage on four sides. |
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| An association or additional meaning that a work, image, or phrase may carry, apart from its literal denotation or dictionary definition. |
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| A poem having A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
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| The literal, dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| A character who, during the course of the narrative, grows or changes in some significant way. |
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| Poem using a metrical foot in verse in which an unaccented syllable is followed by an accented one. |
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| An extended speech by a single character. |
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| The restatement in one's own words of what we understand a literary work to say. |
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| The act of taking someone's ideas or words and using them as your own |
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| the location of a narrative in time and space |
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| Two or more words that contain an identical or similar vowel sound, usually accented, with following consonant sounds identical as well. |
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| A comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like or as, or a verb such as resembles. |
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| a term coined by English novelist E.M. Forster to describe a character with only one outstanding trait. Stay the same throughout a story. |
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| All the distinctive ways in which an author, genre, movement, or historical period uses language to create a literary work. |
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| A brief condensation of the main idea or story of a literary work. |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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| A metrical foot in which a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable. |
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