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| repetition of the same consonant sounds, usually at the begining of words |
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| an indirect refrence to some character or event in litterature, history, or mythology that enriches the meaning of a phrase, line, passage or title |
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| The readers or listeners for whom a piece of writing or speech is intended for |
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| A person or thing presented as a person in a litterary work |
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| the method a writer uses to review the personality of a character in a litterary work |
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| the point toward which the action of a plot built as the conflicts become increasingly intense or complex; |
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| the antagonism between opposing characters or forces that causes tension or suspense in the plot. It may be internal or external. EX: protagonist v. person, nature, society, technology, and/or himself |
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| the range of secondary or associated significances and feelings which a word or a phrase commonly suggests or implies |
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| the range of secondary or associated significances and feelings which a word or a phrase commonly suggests or implies |
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| the litteral or dictionary defenition of a word |
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| in fiction and narrative verse, the convorsations or speech of the characters |
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| the choice of words, phrases, and figures of speech in a work of litterature |
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| one that goes through a fundemental change as a result of his or her experiences |
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| one that goes through a fundemental change as a result of his or her experiences |
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| in literature, the presentation of essential information regarding what has occured prior to the begining of the narrative |
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| In classical dramatic structure, the part of a play after the climax, in which the consequenses of the conflict are revealed |
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| words that carry suggestive or symbolic meaning beyond the litteral level |
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| First person point of view |
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| The narrator, often the main character, tells a story as he or she experiences it and uses the pronouns I,me, my |
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| The part of a narrative that interupts the chronological flow by relating events from the past |
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| intentional clues about what will happen later in a narrative or play |
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| a purposeful exaggeration or overstatement |
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| passages or words that stir feelings or memories through an appeal to the senses |
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| the event that starts the action or sets the plot in motion |
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| the incongruity between expectation and actuality |
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| the figure of speech that makes an imaginative comparison between 2 unlike things and doesnt use like or as |
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| a pattern of identical or simmilar images, actions or ideas recurring throughout a passage or entire work |
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| the person who tells the story to the audience or reader |
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| the narrator knows everything about the characters and events and can move about in time and place and into the minds of all the characters |
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| a repetition of phrases, sentences or ideas, using an identical format |
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| giving an inanimate object or abstract concept with life or with human atributes or feelings |
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| the structure of a narrative |
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| the mode or perspective of the narrator, established by an author, through which the reader is presented with the characters, actions and events in a work of ficiton |
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| the conclusion of the conflict in a narrative or dramatic plot |
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| The complication and development of the conflict leading to the climax of a plot |
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| the time and place in which a piece of litterature occurs |
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| a verbal comparison in which a similarity is expressed, often, but not necesarilly, using like or as |
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| a major subdivision in a poem, analogous to a paragraph and prose , usually centered around a single person, place, idea, or emotion. |
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| one that does not change or grow; often used as a control against which to measure a dynamic character |
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| something concrete that suggests or stands for an idea, quality, or concept larger than itself |
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| The authors manipulation of sentence structure; the relationship between words and among word groups in sentences |
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| The authors manipulation of sentence structure; the relationship between words and among word groups in sentences |
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| A cental or dominant idea advanced by a literary work and revealed through plot, characters, setting, point of view, and symbols |
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| Third person point of view |
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| The narrator is someone outside the story who refers to all of the characters in the story by name or as he, she, they |
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| the attitude a writer conveys toward his or her subject of audience |
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| the concept that concept that an action or event will produce a certain response to the action in the form of another event |
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| A trite or overused expression or idea |
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| To examine in order to note the similarities of |
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| To set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences |
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| The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence. |
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| The state of being placed or situated side by side |
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