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| hard luck story get out of trouble |
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| meter unstressed unstressed stressed "I am MONarch of ALL I surVEY" |
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| word or phrase to which pronoun refers |
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| short statement about general truth "early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise" |
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| rhetorical address to someone not present |
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| template for character situation symbol |
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| short remarks to audience |
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| repeated use of a vowel "How now brown cow" |
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| a poem or song about lover who must leave eachother in the early hours of the morning |
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| unrhymed poetry of iambic pentameter |
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| seize the day You go around only once |
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| opposite of parallel construction; inveting the second of two phrases that would otherwise be in parallel form "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." |
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| far-fetched comparison between 2 unlike things |
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| same consonany sound in words with different vowel sounds |
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| character with traits that are expected or traditional |
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| to teach moralize or instruct |
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| the running over of a sentence from one verse or stanza to the next without pause |
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| brief quotation found at the beginning of a literary work, reflective of theme |
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| 3 sylables one stressed 2 short |
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| outcome or clarification at the end |
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| letter (mail) = epistle therefore a novel in letter form |
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| exaggerated or imporbably situations, physical disasters, and sexual innuendo to amuse |
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| character who contrasts Banquo vs Macbeth |
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| rhymed couplet written in iambic pentameter |
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| rhyme in a line "A narrow fellow in the grass" |
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| 14 line 2 parts: 8 lines: abbaabba 6 lines: cdcdcd or cdecde |
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| affirmation of an idea by using a negative understatement. the opposite of hyperbole. "She is no saint." "He was not averse to taking a drink" |
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| a figure of speech that replaces the name of something with a closely associated word or phrase "the White House" in stead of "the president" or "the presidency" "brass" to mean "military officers" |
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| a poem play or story that celebrates and idealizes the simple life of shepherds. |
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| the bit of lit. work or passage which appeals to the reader's emotions, esp. pity, compassion and sympathy |
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| a sentence that delivers it's point at the end "At the piano she practiced scales." |
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| steriotypical character; a type; similar to conventional character and flat character |
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| a figure of speech where one part represents the entire object or vice versa. "All HANDS on deck; lend me your EARS." |
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