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| Using the same consonant to start two or more stressed words or syllables in a phrase or verse line. |
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| The repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different |
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| A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length. |
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| A verse line ending at a grammatical boundary or break, such as a dash, a closing parenthesis, or punctuation such as a colon, a semi-colon, or a period. The opposite to an end stopped line is a line subject to enjambment. |
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| The running over of a sentence or phrase from one verse to the next without terminal punctuation, hence not end-stopped. Such verses can be called run-on lines. |
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| Rhythmical but non-metrical, non-rhyming lines. These may have a deliberate rhythm or cadence but seem to disappoint the reader's expectation for a formal meter such as iambic pentameter. |
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| Exaggeration beyond reasonable credence. |
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| A comparison that is made literally without pointing out the similarity by using words such as "like" "than" or "as" |
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| An expression impossible in fact but not necessarily self-contradictory . |
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| One or more lines repeated before or after the stanzas of a poem. |
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| Words that share all sounds following the word's last stressed syllable. |
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| A comparison using "like" or "as" |
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| A figure of speech that attributes human characteristics to an inanimate object. |
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| The use of words to imitate a sound. |
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| A local expression that is not accepted in formal speech or writing. |
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| The use of a word somewhat like the one intended, but ridiculously wrong. |
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| The most prominent of the character who oppose the protagonist or hero(ine) in a dramatic narrative work. |
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| A reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, movement, etc. |
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| The act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a time period of which it does not belong. |
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| The people appearing in a literary work. |
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| The representation of persons in a narrative and dramatic works |
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| The method by which the author describes, and comments on, characters'' motives and values and often also passes judgement on characters and events, as a means of shaping the reader's response. |
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| Undergo some type of change or development in the story, often because of something that happens to them. |
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| A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. |
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| These characters are stereotyped, shallow, and often symbolic. They have only one or two personality traits. |
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| A warning or indication of the future. |
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| Indirect Characterization |
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| Simply presenting the characters' words and actions without commentary and allowing that dramatization to imply their motives, feelings, and values. |
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| The main character of a literary work. |
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| A mode of writing that gives the impression of recording or reflecting faithfully an actual way of life. |
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| Convincing and true to life. They have many different, and sometimes even contradictory personality traits. |
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| Do not change over the course of the story |
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| An extended fictional prose narrative. |
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| The pattern of events and situations in a narrative or dramatic work, as selected and arranged both to emphasize relationships- usually of cause and effect- between incidents and to elicit a particular kind of interest in the reader or audience, such as surprise or suspense. |
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| One who tells, or is assumed to be telling, the story in a given narrative. |
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| The form of written language that is not organized according to the formal patterns of verse; although it will have some sort of rhythm and some devices of repetition and balance, these are not governed by a regularly sustained formal arrangement, the significant unit being the sentence rather than the line. |
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| Anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it. |
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| The choice of words used in a literary work. |
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| The general term used for invented stories, usually applied to novels, short stories, novellas, romances, fables, and other narrative works in prose. |
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| A narrative or mode of storytelling in which the narrator appears as the 'I' recollecting his or her own part of the events related. |
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| A telling of some true or fictitious event or connected sequence of events, recounted by a narrator. |
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| A mode of writing that expresses the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn. |
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| The time and place in which a story's plot unfolds. |
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| The continuous flow of sense perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories in the human mind; a literary method of representing such a blending of mental processes in fictional characters, usually in an unpunctuated or disjointed form of interior monologue. |
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| Spoken exchanges between or among characters in a dramatic or narrative work. |
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| When some of the events of a story are related at a point in the narrative after later story events have already been recounted; enables a storyteller to fill in background information about the characters and events. |
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| The position or vantage point from which the events of a story seem to be observed and presented to us. |
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| Using words or phrases to stimulate one of the senses |
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