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| form of prose that tells a story |
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| Statement that fails to follow logically from the one before |
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| A novel focusing social customs/habits of a social group |
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| A lyric poem marked by serious/respectful feelings toward the subject |
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| Anglo-Saxon language spoken in England from 450-1150 A.D. |
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| A narrator with unlimited understanding, awareness, and insight of characters, setting, background, etc. |
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Words that sound the same as they are written
ie: Bubbling |
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| An eight line stanza of a poem |
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Term of contradictory elements
ie: Jumbo Shrimp |
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| Story of events which a spiritual truth may derive |
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A self-contradictory statement that is
nevertheless true |
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| A mocking imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style/subject |
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| Version of text put into simpler, everyday words |
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| A type of literature dealing with rural life |
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| Faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature/non-human objects |
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| Element in literature that stimulates pity/sorrow |
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| Verse with five poetic feet per line |
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| Sentence that departs from typical word order of English sentences that puts the main thought at the end. |
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| Role that a character depicts to reader |
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| Where human characteristics are applied to non-human objects/animals |
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| sequence of events in a story--exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution |
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| Episodic novel about a wanderer who lives off his wits |
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| Relation which a narrator or speaker stands to the story |
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| Grammar of rhythm/meter in poetry |
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| Main character in a work of literature |
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| False name or alias used by writers |
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| Novels written for mass consumption |
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| Four line poem or four-line unit of a longer poem |
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| depiction of people/things/events without exaggeration for effect |
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| Language/style of a work often emotional used to convince/sway an audience |
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| Language that conveys a speaker's attitude/opinion with regard to a particular subject |
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| Repetition of similar sounds used mostly in poetry |
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| Pattern of rhymes in a poem |
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| Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a poetic line. |
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| French for a novel that contains historical events and people |
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