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| repetition of a particular sound of a phrase |
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a reference to another work of literature or to a historical figure or event
eg."she's my juliet" |
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| person who is against the protagonist |
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| character talking to audience or only certain other characters. reveals some information but relatively short |
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| people to whom the story/play/drama is presented |
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| a type of narrative poetry,originally intended to be sung |
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To influence in an unfair way
A partiality that prevents objective
consideration of an issue or situation. |
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| unrhymned iambic pentametre |
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| a person who is responsible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature |
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| events in order of occurence in time |
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| an expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning, or effect, and even, to the point of being trite or irritating, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel |
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| the highest point of an event/story |
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| appropriate to casual rather than formal speech or writing |
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| a play/work that is intended to be humourous |
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| to find similarities between two |
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conflict
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internal:person vs. himself/herself
external:person vs. environment/others/society/etc. |
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| associated meanings of a word in addition to its explicit or dictionary definition |
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| find differences between two |
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| explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression |
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| conversation between two or more people |
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| straight forward, revealing by exposition or analysis, or through another character |
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| a character that keeps changing(characteristics)during the whole story |
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| portion of a story that introduces important background information to the audience |
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| a rhetorical mode to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion. |
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| what comes after climax before ending |
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language in a way in which the words are used out of their literal meaning
eg.metaphor,simile,hyperbole |
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| first person point of view |
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| character who has relatively bland characteristics |
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| something slightly reveals whats going to happen next |
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| poetry without any predictable rhythem,pattern of rhyme or line length |
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| involving any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) |
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| reveal by showing character in action; the reader infers what a character is like from what she/he thinks, or says, or does. |
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a term for situations and for written and spoken observations that suggest some sort of incongruity (discrepancy) between appearance and reality
including those of verbal,situational and dramatic |
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| specialized vocabulary not known to the general reader |
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| narrarator knows only one person's thoughts or feelings. |
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he perspective, the vantage point from which the story is told.
1st person p.o.v.: character within tells the story (uses "I")
3rd person point of view: voice outside of the story tells the story
Limited 3rd person: narrator knows only one character’s internal state
Omniscient 3rd person: narrator knows all the characters' internal states |
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a figure of speech in which something is identified with something else, showing the common qualities of both.
there are direct,indirect and extended metaphor |
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| the emotional atmosphere experienced by the reader of a literary work. Mood is often suggested by the writer's choice of words, by the events in the work, or by the physical setting. |
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| The act or process of telling the particulars of a story |
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| people who tell the story |
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| from what perspective the story is told |
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| Third person omniscient is a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story |
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| The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe |
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| a figure of speech that infuses two contradictory or opposing ideas to make perfect sense. |
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| a self-contradictory statement that may state a truth. |
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| giving human characteristics to inanimate objects or ideas. |
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| type of writing (rhetoric) whose main purpose is to convince the audience to think, act, or feel a certain way. It involves appealing to reason (logos), to emotion (pathos), and/or to a sense of ethics (ethos). |
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the series of events or episodes that make up the action of a story.
Exposition: introduces setting, characters, basic situation
Inciting Incident: introduces central conflict
Rising Action: he complication of the action; action gains interest and force as opposing groups come into conflict
Climax: highest point of emotional tension/suspense in the story
Resolution: also called Falling Action--conflict is ended
Dénouement: ties up loose ends after the resolution of the conflict |
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| the perspective, the vantage point from which the story is told. |
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| intended to change the public's opinion towards something |
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| A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. |
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| the end of a story as in a literary work,comes after the falling action |
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| The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words |
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| pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song |
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| the patterns of sounds and pauses that are a feature of poetry, prose, and ordinary speech. |
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| A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part of a play's or story's plot leading up to the climax |
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| fully developed(that the reader has a good picture of their looks and personality) |
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| a cutting remark, written or spoken, designed to make fun of, or hurt, its object. Sarcasm often employs irony and may be considered humorous. |
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| a humorous or witty method of criticizing characteristics and institutions of human society. |
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| The time and place of a literary work that establish its context. |
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| informal words that are socially acceptable |
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| A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. |
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| A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another. |
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| a character who remains constant in his or her beliefs, attitudes, behaviors, personality. |
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| using an unproved but widely believed generality about an entire ethnic group. |
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| The way an author chooses words, arranges them in sentences or in lines of dialogue or verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques. |
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| intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events. |
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| An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. |
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| The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. |
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| The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work |
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| a form of literature that depicts the downfall of the leading character whose life, despite its tragic end, represents something significant. |
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| he representation of something as less than it really is, for ironic effect. |
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| A four-line stanza in a poem, the first four lines and the second four lines in a Petrachan sonnet. |
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A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. |
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