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| appealing to the senses, the look of something |
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| story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself (Pilgrems Progress is an allegory for the soul, in which every part of the tale represents some feature of the spiritual world and the struggles of an individual to lead a christian life) |
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| a comparison usually involving two or more symbolic parts (I am to you as peanut butter is to jelly |
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| a protagonist who is markedly unheropis (weak, cowardly, dishonest) |
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| a new word one invented on the spot (oh man you pulled a wilson) |
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| word or phrase used in everyday english that is not a school book word (I'm toasted) |
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| there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words, multiple layers |
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| a word that takes the place of a harsher word (using passed away rather than died) |
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| peotry written without a specific rhyme scheme or pattern |
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| a rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable |
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| third person narrator who sees like god into each character's mind and understands all of the action going on |
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| Like a fable or an allegory meant to instruct |
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| repeated syntactical similarities used for effect |
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| the narrator in a non- first person novel (get some of the author's personality) |
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| an intensly passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise |
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| personal view of a single observor interiorally |
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| setting up a hypothetical situation (if I were you) |
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| the demand of theatre audiences to accept the limitations of staging and supply details with imagination |
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| the weakness of character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise |
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