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| a story in which the characters, setting, and/or events stna dfor moral concepts; for example, a character may represent love or truth |
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| the repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together; found at the beginning of words, or accented syllables |
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| a direct or indirect reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture. |
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| simultaneous conflicting feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person or thing |
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| a comparison made between two things that are unlike in many respects to show how they are alike in some respects |
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| a brief story about an interesting, amusing, or strange event; usually told to entertain or to make a point |
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| the character or force that blocks the protagonist; often, but not always, the villain |
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| something (a character) in direct contrast; a direct opposite; a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words -- a balance of one term against another for emphasis (one hand giveth, the other taketh away) |
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| a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (if the author ship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb |
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| a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses the absent as if present, the dead as if living, something abstract or nonhuman as if it were capable of responding; often uses O |
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| a universal symbol; an original model or old; a charcter, an event, a story, or an image that recurs in different works of literature |
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| a positive statement or declaration |
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| the repitition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds in non rhyming words (flYing one hundred mIles just to rIde on a train) |
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| the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by setting and partly by the authors choice of obhects that are described, A description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere. Similar to mood. |
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| a writers intellectual position or emotion regarding his subject; conveyed by his language |
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| ones readers or listeners |
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| an account of the writers own life |
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| a poem or song that tells a story |
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| the account of a persons life written or told by another person |
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| a pause or break within a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language |
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| the process of revealing the personality of a character in a story |
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| a word or phrase that has become meaningless due to overuse (green with envy) |
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| a moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot; usually the moment when the conflict is decided one way or another |
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| a light form of drama, aiming primarily to amuse |
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| comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative |
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| an imaginative comparison, usually an extended metaphor or surprising analogy, between two dissimilar things |
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| a struggle or clash between two characters or opposing forces |
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| all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds before or after different vowel sounds (liKe a pair of thiCK soCKs) |
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| the dictionary meaning of the word, independent of other associations the word might have |
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| the outcome of a plot where the conflict is resolved |
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| the characteristic speech of a particular region or social group |
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| conversation between two or more characters |
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| a day by day record of event sand thoughts kept by an individual; usually more personal than a journal |
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| a writers choice of words |
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| the enactment of a sequence of events by actors who impersonate characters the spoken dialogue |
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| a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger than life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
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| a descriptive word or phrase that is commonly used to describe a person or thing (George Washington is the father of our country) |
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| a short piece of non-fiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited point of view |
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| a more agreeable substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept (earthly remains rather than corpse) |
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| a quality of style marked by pleasing combinations of sounds |
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| in a story, the introductory material which may create the mood, give the setting, and introduce the characters |
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| a brief fictional narrative told to present a moral or practical lesson; characters are animals |
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| a comedy in which ridiculous often stereotyped charcters are involved in absurd situations; often slapstick (laurel and hardy) |
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| narrative writing drawn from the imagination of the author rather than from history of fact |
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| language used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly, usually not to be interpreted literally |
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| a word of phrase that describes one thing in terms of another, usually to achieve special effects or meaning (apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, understatement |
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| a scene that interrupts the present action of the plot to move backward to tell what happened at an earlier time |
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| a character who sets off another character in the plot by strong contrast, emphasizes the differences between the two characters |
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| a short narrative handed down through oral tradition with various tellers and groups modifying it so that it becomes a story of cumulative ownership |
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| the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the plot |
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| a distinct type or category of literature; usually based on form (novel, short story, drama, etc.) |
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| a fugure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, creating a comic, serious, or ironic effect |
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| doctrines, opinions, or way of thinking of an individual or group |
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| language that appeals to the senses, can involve sight, sounds, smells, etc. |
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| a reasonable conclusion based on information presented |
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| the reversal of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase |
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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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| a day by day record of events and personal impressions kept by an individual; usually less intimate than a diary; often includes news or matters of current interest |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using a connective word like like, as than, or resembles |
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| a figure of speech in which something closely related to a thing or suggested by it is substituted for the thing itself |
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| a long fictional prose narrative |
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| the use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (buzz, hiss) |
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| a contradictory combination of words |
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| a phrase or statement that while seemingly contradictory or absurd mar actually be true |
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| the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures |
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| a voice not directly the authors but created by the author and through which the author speaks |
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| the kind of metaphor in which a non human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human |
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| the just of fitting retribution or punishment (hangman getting hanged) |
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| the vantage point from which an author tells a story |
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| the principles or methods of writing effectively |
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| the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables in a language |
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| the style of writing that ridicules in a humouros or caustic manner |
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| a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as like, as, than, or resembles |
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| a fixed idea of a character or an idea that does not allow for individuality |
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| a writing style that tries to depict the random flow of thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations rushing through a characters mind |
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| a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (major and minor)that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion; valid if only both premises are accurate |
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| a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole (threads for clothes, wheels for a car) |
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| the way in which words are combined to make a sentence (sentence length, patterns, punctuation) |
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| a figure of speech that consists of saying less than what is really meant or saying something with less force than is appropriate |
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| the use of details in such a way as to make something untrue seem to be true |
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| proves the validity of an idea or point of view through sound reasoning and discussion that thoroughly convinces the reader |
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| dicision and classification |
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| separates into groups and categorizes according to similarities |
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| exemplification/illustration |
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| illuminates through the use of examples |
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| explains and analyzes information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion |
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| modifies, limits, or restricts by giving exceptions |
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| explains a series of steps that must be performed or that regularly occur in a specific sequence |
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| poetry that does not conform to regular rhyme scheme |
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| a poem that expresses the personal thoughts or feelings of the poet |
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| a word, phrase, line, or group of lines, that is repeated for effect several times in a poem |
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| a rhyming sound that is not exact (mystery, mastery) |
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| a fourteen line poem, usually writtten in iambic pentameter |
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