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| narrative in which characters, setting, behavior demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance |
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| repetition of consonant sound |
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| reference to a literary or historical event, person, or place |
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| breif story told by a character in literature |
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| any force in opposition to main character, or protagonist |
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| juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas |
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| address or invocation to something that is inanimate |
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| recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature |
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| a pause in a line of verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific matrical patterns. |
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| comparison of two unlikely things that is drown out of a work, particularly an extended metaphor within a poem |
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| two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection |
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| language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people |
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| specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect |
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| monologue set in a specific situation and spoken to an imaginary audience; also soliloquy |
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| poetic lament upon the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation |
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| continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next |
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| poem that celebrates, in a continuous narrative, the achievements of mighty heroes and heroines, often concerned with the founding of a nation or developing of a culture |
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| detailed and complex metaphor that entends over a long section of a work, also known as conceit |
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| play or scene characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slapstick humor |
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| poetry that is characterized by varying line lengths lack of traditional meter and non-rhyming lines |
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| overstatement characterized by exaggerated language |
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| location of one thing as being adjacent or juxtaposed with another. this placing of two items side by side creates a certain effect, reveals an attitude, or accomplishes some purpose of the writer. |
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| one thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them |
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| recurrent device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event |
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| lyric poem that is somewhat serious in subject and treatment, elevated in style and sometimes uses elaborate stanza structure |
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| figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, sometimes resulting in a humorous image or statement |
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| short fiction that illustrates an explicit moral lesson through the use of analogy |
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| statement that seems contradictory but may actually be true |
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| use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts |
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| a work that describes the simple life of country folk, usually shepards who live a timeless, painless life |
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| voice or figure of the author who tells and structures the story and who may or may not share the values of the actual character |
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| treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human qualities |
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| also called italian sonnet; a sonnet form that divides the poem into one section of eight lines (octave) and a second section of six lines (sestet), usually following the abba abba cde cde rhyme scheme |
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| also called an english sonnet; sonnet form that divides the poem into three units of four lines each and a final unit of two lines, usually abab cdcd efef gg |
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| monologue where the character in a play is alone and speaking only to himself |
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| one who appears in a number of stories or plays as the cruel stepmother, femme fatale, etc. |
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| distinctive manner of expression; each author's style is expressed through his or her diction, rhythm imagery, so on |
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| when a part is used to signify a whole |
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| generalized, abstract paraphrase of the inferred central or dominant idea or concern of a work; the statement a poem makes about its subject |
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| verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas - five tercets and one quatrain. the first and third line of the first tercet rhyme, and this rhyme is repeated through each of the next four tercets and in the last two line of the concluding quatrain |
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