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| Play which depicts life as meaningless |
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| A major division in a play |
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| A short and memorable saying expressing a general truth; The early bird gets the worm |
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| Any writing with double meaning: literal and symbolic; Orwell’s Animal Farm, farm politics and Stalin-era politics |
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| Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words; She sells sea-shells by the sea shore |
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| Reference in literature to well known person, event, or place drawn from religion, literature, or history; Achilles’ heel- a person’s one weakness |
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| An event, person, item, or expression which appears in the wrong historical period |
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| The point in a plot where the hero makes a critical discovery; In Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex, when Oedipus realizes his true identity |
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In poetry, three syllables
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| Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of each line; “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall...” -Churchill |
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| Altered order of events or words |
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| Short, simple story within a literary work |
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| Character who opposes the protagonist/ main character |
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| Substitution of a title or descriptive phrase for a proper name |
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| Placement of opposing or contrasting phrases side by side |
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| Brief, witty statement or observation |
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| Speaking to an abstract or imaginary thing as if it could hear and understand |
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| Repetition of vowel sound |
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| Series of related words or clauses forming a sentence without linking conjunctions |
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| Short, narrative folk song focusing on the climax of a story |
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| Term used to refer to professional poet, composer, singer, or harpist |
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| Genre of novel which centers around the development of a young protagonist |
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| Dramatic pause to add theatrical or emotional depth to phrase |
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| Generally accepted and approved collection of work |
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| Major division of a long poem or epic |
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| Descriptive writing of a subject which greatly exaggerates certain features for comedic effect |
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| Truncation of poetry line, final syllables are left out of lines |
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| Purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions |
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Static/ Flat- minor role, do not change or grow a substantial amount
Round/ Dynamic- complex major character who encounters conflict and if changed by it |
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| Plot dealing with the adventures of knights courting fair maidens and overcoming epic challenges |
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| Words in a second phrase which are in the inverted form of the order of the preceding phrase |
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| Group of singers separate from the principal performers |
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| Moment in plot where the crisis reaches its highest point of intensity |
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| Five or three acts satirizing the attitudes and customs of society through high standards of intellect and morality |
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| Poetry in which the lines of the text creates an actual shape |
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| An opposition which drives forward the plot |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds |
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| Two lines of poetry with matching end-rhymes |
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| After the plot’s climax, the final sequence of events |
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| Unrealistic resolution of the story’s conflict |
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| A line of verse containing two feet |
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| List of main characters in a play or story- cast list |
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| Sad, mournful, lamenting poem |
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| The continuation of a line of poetry onto the next line |
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| Long, narrative poem which records the adventures of a hero |
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| Quotation at the beginning of a piece of literature |
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| An inscription on a person’s tomb in memory of their life |
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| A term used in place of a name to characterize it. In Huxley’s Brave New World, “the Savage” |
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| Written or spoken tribute or praise to someone who has died |
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| The use of a neutral word or phrase in substitution of an offensive or harsh one |
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| Literary style of alliteration, antitheses and similes; an ornate and elegant use of language |
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| Beginning portion of the plot which sets background info and introduces the situation |
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| Short, simple story designed to teach a moral truth |
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| A humorous play with the plot centered around an exploited situation rather than character development |
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| The use of words in other ways than their literal sense to produce images or give emphasis in the reader’s mind |
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| Non-chronological transition to an earlier event |
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| A character who serves as a contrast to another character to bring emphasis to specific traits |
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| The traditional aspects of any culture preserved from generation to generation |
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| A secondary story within the main one |
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| Verse lacking fixed metrical patterns |
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| Category or class of an art form with a particular form, technique, style, or content |
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| A line of verse containing seven feet |
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| Two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter |
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| A line of verse containing six feet |
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| Extreme pride and arrogance, indicates a loss of contact with reality |
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| Two syllables, one unstressed and one stressed |
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| “In the middle of things” beginning a narrative in the middle of a sequence of events to attract the reader’s immediate attention |
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| The literal meaning of a word or phrase is the opposite of that intended |
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| The terminology of a specific group |
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| Metaphorical name or something |
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| All the words in a language |
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| Ironic understatement “I’m not happy” to say “I am mad” |
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| Brief poem expressing feeling and emotion |
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| Masterpiece; and author;s most distinguished work |
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| The misuse of words for comic effect |
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| Play which exaggerates emotions and intensifies tensions |
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| Autobiography in which the author focuses on the people of whom they were in contact with |
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| A comparison of two things |
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| Rhythmic pattern or arranged words |
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| Substitution of a word or phrase to stand for a similar meaning word or phrase |
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| A tiny world within the macrocosm |
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| A line of verse containing one foot |
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| A reoccurring theme in a literary work |
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