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| Stressed rhythmic structure of poectic lines |
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| A narrative that is an extended metaphor; the elements of the narrative carry significance on a literal and figurative level |
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the repetition of consonants at the beginning of words that are next door to each other or close by.
Always try to understand the reason for alliteration. Does it speed or slow rythm? Emphasis? What does poet want you to focus on? |
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A metrical foot used in poetry consisting of two short syllables followed by a long syllable
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| The one who struggles againts or contends with the protagonist; the antagonist may be another individual or an obstacle or challenge, such as fear or death |
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the direct address of someone or something that is not present. Many odes begin this way.
EXAMPLE: "Oh Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers." |
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| Describes writing - usually an essay - that establishes a position and supports it |
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the repetition of vowel sounds usually internally rather than initially.
Example: Her goodly eyes likesapphires shining bright |
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deliberate anticlimax to make a definite point or draw attention to a falseness.
Example: Here great Anna who three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea
The humor or emphasis is in the fact that Anna (Queen of England) holds important meetings in the same room that she also takes tea (pronounced w/ long a sound) as in upper crust England. |
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| Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| Turning point in a story; the point where the main characters experiences a change, and the action stops building and begins falling |
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| Element introduced into the plot to alter its course |
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| Final divition of a discourse or literary work that brings the work to a close; fifth part of plot structure |
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| A foot in meter in poetry; in Greek or Latin verse, is a long syllable followed by two short syllables; in English verse, it is a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables |
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| The conclustion of the story; includes the events between the falling action and the last scene of a narrative or drama |
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| A line containing only two metrical feet |
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| A character whose personality changes over the course of a narrative or who has the ability for such change. |
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| Repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, found in the final syllable(s) of the lines of poetry |
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| The author's explanation of background information about characters and setting at the beginning of the plot; writing with a primary purpose of imforming, clarifying, or explaining. |
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| Writing or discourse with the primary purpose of information clarifying, or explaining; background information shared by the author |
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| Subjective depiction of the real world through imagination, the abstract, and symbols. |
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| Moment following the climax where the conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist is resolved |
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| Two or more syllables match in the rhyming words; the final syllable or syllables are unstressed |
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| imaginary naritive; the information or events are created by the author |
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| A character who highlights through contrast opposite characteristics in another character |
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| Basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| Poetry using natural rhythms of words and phrases instead of required metrical feet |
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| Line wiith 7 metrical feet |
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| line with six metrical feet |
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Exaggeration or overstatment
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| Line of five feet, each with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
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| Rising and falling rhytm in poetry from alternating stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| Subjective or personal literary style that relies on associations; style adapted to writing from nineteenth century school of painters, including Monet and Renoir. |
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| First stage in plot which the author establishes the situation and shares background information. |
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| Writing that attacks a person or idea through emotional language. |
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| Doing or saying the opposite or unexpected ued in irony |
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| Discrepancy between what is said or done and what is meant |
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| Discrepancy between what is said or done and what is meant |
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| A rhyme that matches just one syllable, often a stressed syllable found at the end of the lines |
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| Basic rhythmic structure for lines in poetic verses |
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| A broad literary method not tied to one specific form of genre, such as irony or satire |
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| An object, concept, or sturcture repeated in a literary work, thereby giving it symbolic significance in the story |
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| A line of verse with one foot |
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| An individual who tells or speaks the story |
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| The events that tell the story |
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| Literary movment that depicts life as accurately as possible, illustrating transformation in society throught environment and hereditary. |
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| A style of prose an poetry from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, reviving a classical style from Greek and Roman cultures. |
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| writing that delivers factual events and observations |
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| an extended fiction narrative written in prose that includes characters, plot, and setting |
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| A line in poetryof eight metrical feet |
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| A work that mocks an original work, character, or style through humorous imitation. |
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pertaining to sound from speech
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| The perspective or vatage point from which the authour chooses to tell the truth |
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| The most commen form of written language following natural speech patterns and gramatical structure. |
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| Main character in a literary work; literally, one who struggles toward or for something |
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| delivering subject from third-person objective point of view with no added interpretation or elaboration |
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| Doing or saying the opposite or unexpected; used in irony |
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| Pattern of repetition of rhyme within a poem designated by aabb where a marks the first line and all other lines rhyming with it |
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| Introduction of conflict into the plot, bringing tension that continues throughout the story line |
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| longer prose narrative, originally in the associated with the legendary, imaginative, and poetic |
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| An artistic and literary movement originating in the second half of Europe, emphaizing emotions, idealism, adventure, and chivalry. |
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| Harsh or biting verbal irony |
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| literary form that ridicules human vices or shortcomings |
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Repetition of final consonant only in two word; also referred to as "near rhyme" or "off rhyme"; it is consonance in the final consonants of the rhyming words such as all and bell or mirth and heart
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| Writing or discourse that explores ideas. |
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| In poetry, a group of lines set off by space; also referred to as a verse |
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| A character who stays the same throuhout a literary work |
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| A popularly held belife about a specific group or type of individuals. |
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| A well-understood and accepted interpretation of an image, symbol, or character; a character who exists for necessity of plot |
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| Organization of a literary work |
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| How an author writes; incorporates diction, stanx, use of narration and dialouge, choice of point of view, and description |
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| A line ofr four metrical feet |
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| Author's style incorporating choices in dictation, syntax, point of view, description, narration, and dialouge |
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| Setting of story within time |
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| Physical setting of the story |
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| Theme or main idea of the story |
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| idea the essayist is conveying |
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| The attitude toward the subject conveyed by the author |
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| The attitude toward the subject coveyed by the author |
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| Phrase stating subject or theme of a work or speech |
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| In poetry, a line with three metrical feet |
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| A metrical foot in poetry of a unstressed syllable followed by an unstressed one |
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| Expression of an idea with less force or strength than expected for the sake of humor |
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| The speaker. In non-fiction, the author; in fiction the narrator; may also refer to the style chosen by the write, such as formal or informal |
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| Intelectual humor; in poetry, wit works through word play to emphasize concepts |
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| Emotional association that accompanies a certain word or phrase; often described as positive or negative depending on the emotional connection. |
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| A word that names or signifies something specific: "Wind" is the denotation for air in natural motion. "Poodle" is the denotation for a certian breed of dog. |
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| Deviation from usual meaning of a word or group of words; the final syllable or syllables are unstressed. |
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| The meaning of a word or phrase according to the dictionary; denotative |
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| Comparison of two unlike items |
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| Comparison of two unlike items using like, as, or as if |
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| In a literary work, a refrence to a person, place, or thing from another literary work or from history. |
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| Figure of speech that attributes human characteristics to inanimate objects |
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| Word picture painted by the writer |
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| To visualize the picture(s) evoked by the writer through thye senses |
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Picture painted by the writer, usually a poet
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| Term coined by Ezra Pound for free imagery, open to many interpretations |
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| An object, image, word, or feeling that represents something greater. |
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| A well-understood and accepted interpretation of an image, symbol, or character; a character who exists for necessity of plot |
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| Following accepted standards; a well-understood interpretation; see stock |
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| Repeition of initial consonants in consecutive words or in words close to each other |
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| Direct address to someone or something not present suchas an imaginary person or an abstract quality; often introduced by the exclamation, "O." |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds; more common in verse than in prose |
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| Abrupt change in style going from exalted to mundane, produceing a ludicrous effect. |
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| A complete pause in a line of poetry. |
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| Extended metaphor governing an entire passage or poem |
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| Repetition of a consonant sound in short succession |
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| A line of having no end punctuation so that the meaning continues uninterrupted to the next line |
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| Exaggeration or overstatement |
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| A figure of speech in which an idea or thing is referenced by a name closely associated with it; litterally means "a change of name" |
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| Use of a word that suggests or mimics it meaning through sound, such as roar or whistle. |
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| A figure of speech where two words opposite in meaning are placed next to each other, such as bittersweet |
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| A statement that seems absurd or contradictory but is true; juxtaposition of incongruous ideas to invoke insight |
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| A play on the meaning of a word or of similar-sounding words for an intended effect; usually humorous |
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| Harsh or biting verbal irony |
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| Specific type of metaphor in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for the part |
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| Sentence construction or sentence structure |
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| Speech delivered by a single character who addresses the reader or an internal listener nand reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings |
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Pattern or design of a poem; see open form and closed form |
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| Poetry conforming to presepecified requirements of rhyme, meter, line lenght, and number of lines; two examples are haiku and sonnet |
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| Poetry the does not follow a predetermind form; freedom in the form of a poem |
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| Specified poetic pattern of fourteen lines arranged in a set rhyme scheme; two common sonnets are Italian or Petrarchan, with a rhyme scheme of abba, abba, cdecde, and English or Shakespearnean , with abab, cdcd, efef, gg |
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| Anyone of three fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French poetic forms: the ballad, the virelai, and rondeau |
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| Poetic verse of eight lines of iambic pentameter, usually with a rhyme scheme of abba abba |
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| Four lines of verse making up a stanza or a poem |
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| Two consecutive lines in poetry, usually with the same meter and often rhyming |
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| Two successive lines of iambic oentameter with the second lines usually ending with a stop |
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| A twelve-syllable line written in ibamic haxameter |
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| Satire or parody that mocks the Classical stereotype of a hero or heroic literature, usually through exaggeration or absurdity |
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| A long narrative poem written in elevated language and style about the exploits of a hero or heroine. |
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| A narrative folk song or a narrative set to music |
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| Four-line stanza (quatrain) consisting of alternating four- and three-stress lines; usually second and fourth line rhyme (abcb) |
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| Four rhyming lines, abcb, with lines 1 and 3 having eight syllables and lines 2 and 4 having six |
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| A poem sharing personal emotions; in Classical poetry, accompanied by a lyre |
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| A sorrowful, melancholic poem, such as a funeral song or lament for the dead |
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Lyrical verse or poem with a serious topic and tone
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| A poem consisting of nineteen lines: five tercets followed by one quatrain |
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| Thre lines of poetry that form a stanza or a complete poem |
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| Poem of six, six-line stanzas with six end words that are repeated in a closing tercet |
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| An inscription on a building or tomb or a short verse apperaring at the beginning of a longer work (novel, chapter, or poem) to set mood or reveal theme. |
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| Derogatory term for verse with little literary value |
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| A five-line humorous or non-sensical poem in which the first two lines are anapestic tirmeter, the next two are anapestic dimeter, and the last line is trimeter; rhyme scheme is aabba |
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| A morning love song; opposite of a serenade; literally, a song to a sleeping woman; also refers to a song-evoking daybreak |
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| unrhyme iambic pentameter |
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| Preformed by an actor or actors |
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| In Greek, "imitation"; mimetic theory from Aristotle held that successful imitation in art portrayed reality as closely as possible |
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| The series of events that make up the story |
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| The author's explanation of background information about characters and setting at the beginning of the plot; writing with a primary purpose of informing, clarifying, or explaining |
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| elemant introduced into the plot to alter its course |
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| Turning point in a story; culmination of the events in the plot |
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| Point of final conflict in the plot between the protagonist and antagonist where one emerges as the categorical winner |
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| Statement summarizing the message or big idea of a story |
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| Comedy carried out by characters that are true to life, realistic |
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| Humor with absurdities, horseplay, and exaggerations, depicting an urefuned life |
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| Comedy the entertains the audience through absurdity, improbabilities, exaggeration, and verbal humor |
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| Literary form that ridicules human vices or shortcomings |
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| Fictional work combining characteristics of tragedy and comedy, such as a somber play with a happy ending |
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| Noble, good protagonist in a tragedy who experiences adversity or misfortune |
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| A tragic flaw within a character; in Greek, means "to miss the mark." |
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| Final resolution in a poem or narrative that unravels the plot and concludes the work; misfortune experienced by tragic hero. |
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| Excessive pride adversely affecting the protagonist's judgment; most common tragic flaw |
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| Form Greek, meaning "cleansing" or "purging"; in tragedy, a moment for purgin or relieving of emotions for the audience |
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| Literary movement that depicts life as accurately as possible, illustrating transformation in society through environment and hereditary |
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| Delivering subject from third-person objective point of view with no added interpretation |
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| Subjective depiction of the real world through imagination, the abstract, and symbols |
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