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| A symbolic representation of a character for a concept, position, or one aspect of personality. |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of successive words and within adjacent words. |
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| A character who opposes the protagonist or whose actions conflict with the protagonist's aims or desires. |
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| The complementary term for the repitition of vowel sounds in a line. |
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| A prose or verse fable or short story that usually has a moral. In beast fables animal characters are represented as acting with human feelings and motives. |
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| a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects. |
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| Literary work or cartoon that exaggerates manners, ideas, movements of an organization or person. |
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| The expurgation of pity and fear. |
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| a style of heroic prose and verse narrative about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest. |
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| The moment of greatest emotional tension in a narrative. |
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| The values, qualities, associations, and shades of meaning that a word acquires in contextual usage over time. |
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| A similarity in beginning or ending consonant sounds but different vowel sounds. |
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| The literal meaning of a word or group of words. |
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| The final resolution of a plot's conflict. |
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| An artificial device or character introduced to resolve a plot issue. |
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| The disparity created when readers know more than the characters. |
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| A rhyme that comes at the end of a line of verse. |
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| The movement of syntactic phrasing from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. |
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| A lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. |
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| A representation of something in an excessive manner. |
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| a short narrative or reference that serves to teach by way of example or to prove a point |
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| a short, comic tale in verse; humor is often bawdy or even positively obscene. |
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| A type of narrative in which there is more than one narrator. |
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| A category of literary composition that can be created due to literary technique, tone, content, or even length. |
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| The tragic error that leads to the protagonist's downfall. |
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| A huge exaggeration used in order to prove a point or emphasize something. |
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| A suggestion of sensory phenomena. |
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| Starting a narrative in the middle of events instead of at the beginning. |
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| A phrasing that performs something contrary to expectation. |
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| A figure of speech that places a word for something that describes it. ("sword" as "wound-hoe") |
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| Big, expansive stories, usually on a serious subject, centered on a heroic figure(s) who embody the values of that civilization and who engage in massive conflicts, often battles. The actions of the heroes are significant not only because they profoundly affect their people, but also because they reveal meaning in life and death. |
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| Figurative language that compares one word or thing in terms or another word or thing by way of direct transference. |
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| Figurative language that describes a word substituted for another word associated with it. |
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| Everything that a drama audience sees and hears, including set, costume, lighting, movement, and other sound effects. |
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| The spoken thoughts of a single character. |
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| Any significant repetition of images, symbols, language, actions or other elements of a literary work. |
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| The voice of the person telling the story. |
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| The verbal sounds or words that are meant to mimic things imaginatively heard in the world, such as buzz or hiss. |
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| An epic that was not written down originally; it changes as time goes on as people do not always accurately remember it. |
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| A figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. (ex. dark light) |
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| an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation. |
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| An imitation of another work, though not necessarily to mock it. |
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| A figure of speech in which nonhuman objects or creatures are endowed with human characteristics. |
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| The purposeful arrangement of events in a story or play and the order in which they are presented. |
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| A unit of verse measurement based on a metrical pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. |
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| The perspective from which people, events, and other derails of a literary work are described. |
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| Poetry that stems from heroic deeds in order to remember them and s practical in purporting to record historical events and deals with the real world. |
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| A character that serves as the primary actor in a literary work and with whom readers are often invited to sympathize. |
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| A work that is designed to hurt or be biting towards an organization or person. |
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| An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique of what the author sees as dangerous religious, political, moral, or social standards. |
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| The written text of a play, including dialogue, stage directions, notes from the director, and so on. |
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| poetry which may deal with heroic legend or with more abstract themes and which is composed as the poet's artistic interpretation or recreation of legend or theme. |
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| the marked recurrence of the ‘hissing’ sounds |
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| A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between 2 things by using words such as like or as. |
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| A rhyme with minor or dissonant tonalities. |
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| A speech or lines in a drama in which an actor is alone, revealing his innermost thoughts to the audience. |
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| story (as opposed to plot) |
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| The collection of events that belong to the space and time of the world created by the text as well as events that are only suggested or implied in the text. |
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| A choral song in classical Greek drama accompanied by a movement from the right to the left of the stage. |
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| A concrete image, word, or thing, that refers to an abstract idea of condition. |
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| A type of metonymy that substitutes a part of something for the whole designated. |
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| The central idea or ideas suggested by a literary work. |
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| A flaw in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings the protagonist to ruin or sorrow. |
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| A form of speech which contains an expression of less strength than what would be expected. |
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| A unified plot has a beginning, middle, and end, the events of which are linked together by probability and necessity. |
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| value placed on every human being and every piece of property.If property was stolen, or someone was injured or killed, the guilty person would have to pay weregild as restitution to the victim's family or to the owner of the property. |
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