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| The repitition of a consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words. |
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| The repitition of vowel sounds in nearby words. |
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| The repitition of a consonant sound within near by words. |
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| The use of words which mimic the sounds they describe. |
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| The repititipn of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem. |
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| Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines. |
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| The pattern of end rhymes. |
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| Refers to the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangmentof stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| A character, action, or situation that is a protype or pattern of human life; a situation, setting, or character that occurs over and over again in literature. |
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| People or animals who take part in the action of literary work. |
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| Word choice intended to convey a certain effect. |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word. |
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| The feelings and attitudes associated with a word. |
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| A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event. |
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| Hints or clues that suggest future action. |
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| The use of sensory details to describe one thing in terms of another. |
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| The overall feeling created by an author's choice of words. |
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| The sequence of events in which a story takes place. |
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| The perspective from which the story is told. |
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| First person point of view |
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| The story is told from a character who narrates his or her own experiences directly. |
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| Limited 3rd person point of view |
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| The story is told from the view point of one characteer who can see only a part of the whole story. |
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| The author is outside the story and presents the thoughts of all the characters involved. |
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| The framework or organization of a literary section. |
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| Techniques used by the author to keep readers interested in the story and what will happen next. |
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| The "message" that the author intends to communicate by telling the story. These messages are often universal truths. |
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| The writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience; it is conveyed through the authors choice of word and detail. |
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| The author's distinctive style or manner of expression. |
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| The protagonist's adversary. |
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The central character of the story. |
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| A broad generalzation or an oversimplified view that disregards individual differences; can lead to unfair judgements. |
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| A character with a simple imporatant trait. |
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| A complex character with several traits. |
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| A character that changes little or (not at all). |
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| The character that changes in response to the actions through which he or she passes. |
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| The methods a writer uses to communicate information about characters to readers. |
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| The speaker who tells the story. |
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| A change or momement in a literary piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader. |
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| The sequence of events in a story. |
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| Background material about the characters, setting, and situation with which the author introduces the story. |
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| The enviroment in which the story takes place. |
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| Interrupts the harmony and balance of the situation and introduces the conflict. |
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| The part of the story in which the tension rises toward the climax. |
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| The central source of tension is between a character and some outside force, such as another charater, society, fate, or nature. |
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| The central source of tension is within a character. |
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| The moment when the action comes to its highest point of dramatic conflict. |
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| The part of the story that follows the climax and leads to the resolution. |
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| The conclusion of the story. |
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| A reference to a mythological , literary, or historical person, place, or thing. |
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| A point-by-point comparison between two dissimilar things in order to clarify the less familiar of the two. |
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| A brief account of an intersesting incident or event that usually is intended to make a point or entertain. |
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| A form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people. |
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| The actual words that characters speak. |
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| An exaggerated statement used to make a strong effect. |
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| An expression whose meaning is different from the sum of the meanings of the individual words. |
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| A particular tone created when the speaker intends a meaning that is opposite to the words he or she says. |
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| The use of verbal irony (saying one thing but meaning the opposite) in which a person appears to be praising something ut is actually insulting it. |
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| An image, object, character, or action that stands for an idea beyond it's literal meaning. |
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| A figure of speech in which the speaker says less than what he or she actually feels. |
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| A form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate. |
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| A comparison of two things not using "like" or "as." |
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| Occurs when elements of a statement contradict each other. |
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| A giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects or abstract ideas. |
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| A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression. |
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| A comparison of two things using "like" or "as." |
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| A part of something is used to signify the whole; the whole is used to represent a part. |
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| A sentence that makes a sentence. |
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| A sentence that gives a command. |
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| A sentence that asks a question. |
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| A sentence that provide emphasis or express strong emotion. |
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| Two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon. |
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| An independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. |
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| Two or more independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. |
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| Makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending of the sentence. |
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| Makes sense fully only when the end of the sentence is reached. |
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| Phrases or clauses balance each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning, or length. |
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| Two statments that are balanced, but opposite. |
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| Arrangment of ideas in the second clause in a reversal of the first. |
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| Deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses. |
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| Intentional omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context. |
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| A sentence with the predicte before the subject. |
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| A poetic a rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, often creating an effect of suprise and wit. |
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| Constructing a sentence so the subject comes from the predicate. |
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| A grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or a part of a sentence. It involves an arrangment of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs so that elements of equal importance are equally developed and similarity phrased. |
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| Deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis. |
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| Device in which sounds, words, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis. |
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| Question that requires no answer. |
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| Sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect. |
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| Repitition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of a successive clauses. |
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| Repitition of the last wordof one clause at the beginning of the following clause. |
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| Reptition at the end of a clause of the the word that occured at the beginning of the clause. |
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| Repitition of the same word or group pf words at the ends of successive clauses. |
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