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| Anything that is not concrete or definite. |
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| Story in whcih people, places, and things are often symbolic |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| An indirect reference to any person, place, or thing |
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| A brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event |
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| A character or force in conflict with the protagonist in literature. |
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| Presents contrasing or paradoxical ideas that illustrate direct opposites |
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| A general truth or observation about life, usually stated concisely and pointedly |
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| Figure of speech in which speaker directly addresses an absent person |
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| Speech by an actor to an audience that the other actors presumably cannot hear |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds |
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| Song like poem that tells a story |
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| Novel in with a youth struggles towards maturity |
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| Distorted or exaggerated portrayel of a person |
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| Act of creating and developing character |
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| Moment of greatest tension, outcome is to be decided |
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| Casual conversation or informal writing of literate people |
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| Feeling created by a humorous action or speech in a serious literary work |
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| An unusual and exciitng comparision between two very different things |
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| Something you can see and touch |
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| Overtones or suggestions of additional meaning |
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| In a literary work it is anything that happens after the resolution of the plot |
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| Form of language spoken in a particular region or group |
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| Choice of words used in writing or speaking |
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| Written to teach or state a message |
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| A work in which a character speaks to a silent listener |
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| A solemn and formal lyric poem about death |
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| Long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or heroes |
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| Meaning as defined in dictionry, a fact |
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| Puzzling and difficult to figure or understand |
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| Suggests that some malicious fate is frustrating human efforts |
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| A brief, pointed statement in prose or in verse |
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| Moment of high tension that comes before the climax |
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| A quotation that appears in the beginning of a literary work |
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| Moment of insight, discovery, or revelation in which a character's life is greatly altered |
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| One told in a series of letters |
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| An inscription written on a tomb or burial place |
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| Word or phrase that states a characteristic quality of some person or place |
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| Writing or speech that explains, informs, or presents information |
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| Writing or speech that is not meant to be interpreted literally |
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| An expression or word used imaginatively rather than literally |
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| Scene relived in a character's memory |
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| Indication of events to come |
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| Alludes to primitive, medieval, wild, mysterious, or natural elements |
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| Detailed reconstruction of life in another time and or place |
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| A deliberate exaggeration or overstamenet |
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| Descriptive language used in literature to recreate sensory experiences |
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| An appeal to a Muse or another divine being for help in writing a poem |
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| Literary techniques that involve surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions |
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| Latin phrase meaning "remember, you too must die." |
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| Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as if it were something else |
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| A poem's rhythmical pattern |
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| Substituting the name of one thing with that of something closely related to it. |
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| Poem about a trivial matter written in the style of a serious epic |
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| Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
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| Recurring literary convention, a repeated symbol or image to clarify the story |
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| Is a writing that tells a story. The act of telling is.... |
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| The main concern is to tell the story |
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| A literary movement during the 18th century, writers turned to classical literary |
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| Prose writing that tells about real people, places, and objects |
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| A book-length story in prose |
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| When the narrator tells thes tory without showing any bias at all |
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| The use of words that imitate sounds |
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| Emphasize a poitn by overdoing it, sometimes with repetition |
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| A figure of speech that fuses two contradictory or opposing ideas |
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| A statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth |
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| The repetition of a sentence pattern |
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| To put a passage or work into your own words |
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| A humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work |
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| The quality in a literary work that arouses feelings of pity, sorrow, or compassion |
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| Giving human traits to non-human subjects |
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| An over abundance of something, an excess |
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| Artistic arrangement of events that tell a story |
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| Making unjustified or excessive claims |
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| The ordinary form of written language other than poetry |
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| Main character of a story |
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| Song or hymn of praise (in the Bible) |
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| Idealistic but far too impractical |
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| A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song |
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| A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza |
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| A literary and aristic movement of the 18th, and 17th centuries |
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| A figure of speech that compares two dissimilar things, using key words (like, as) |
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| Long speech made by character who is alone |
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| Tending or causing tiredness |
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| Narrative that presents thoughts in a naturally random order |
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| The central topic in prose or poetry |
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| Brief condensation or gist of the main idea of the story |
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| Pleasurable anxiety we feel that heightens our attention to the story |
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| A person who tires to win one's favor through flattery |
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| Figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole |
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| The central idea, concern, or purpose in a literary work |
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| The writer's attitude toward the reader nad subject |
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| Literary technique saying less than what is generally meant, usually ironic tone |
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| Speaker's meaning to be far from the usual of their words |
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| The ordinary language of people living in a particular region |
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| Lines of writing that considt of more or less regular rhythm and rhyme |
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| Attractive in appearence, chracter, manner, etc. |
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