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Literary Terms
English 3 Literary terms
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11th Grade
01/26/2017

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Allegory
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a story or tale with two or more levels of meaning
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Alliteration
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the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or accented syllables
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Allusion
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a reference to a well known person,place,event,literary work, or work of art
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Analogy
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an extended comparison of relationships
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Antagonist
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character or force in conflict with a main character or protagonist
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Anecdote
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brief story about an interesting,amusing,or strange event
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant vowels
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Autobiography
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a form of nonfiction in which a person tells his or her own life story
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Ballad
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sonyglike poem that tells a story,often one dealing with adventure and romance
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Biography
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a form of nonfiction in which a writer tells the life story of another person
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Character
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a person or an animal that takes part in the action of a literary work
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Charcterization
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the act of creating and developing a character
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Climax
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the high point of interest or suspense in a literary work
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Conflict
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A struggle between opposing figures
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Dialect
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the form of a language spoken by people in a particular region or group
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Exposition
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is writing a speech that explains, informs, or presents, info
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Flashback
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a section of a literary work that interrupts the chronological presentation of events
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Foreshadowing
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is the use of clues to suggest events that have yet to occur
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Irony
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a contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
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Metaphor
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one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
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Mood
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the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
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Narrative
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a story told in fiction,nonfiction,poetry,or drama
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Personification
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a nonhuman subject is given human charateristics
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Persuasion
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writing or speech that attempts to convince a reader to think or act in particular way
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Plot
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the sequence of events in a literary work
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Point of View
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the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told
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Resolution
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the end of a story
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Satire
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writing that ridicules or criticizes individuals,ideas,insitutions,social conventions, or other works of art or literature
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Short story
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a brief work of fiction
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Simile
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makes a direct comparison between two subjects;using like or as
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Theme
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a central message or insight into life revealed by a literary work
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