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| A story in which the characters, settings, and events stand for abstract or moral concepts. |
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| A contrast of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement. |
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| A concise, sometimes witty saying that expresses a principle or truth about life. |
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| A subdivision in a long poem, corresponding to a chapter in a book. |
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| A movement in art, literature, and music that advocates imitating the principles manifesting in art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. |
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| A fanciful and elaborate figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things. |
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| When all problems or mysteries of the plot are resolved or unraveled. |
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| Any artificial or contrived device used at the end of the plot to resolve or untangle the complication. |
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| A poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost. |
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| A brief, clever and usually memorable statement. |
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| An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person. |
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| A comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in farfetched, silly situations. |
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| Starting a story in the middle and then using a flashback to tell what happened earlier. |
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| In Anglo-Saxon poetry, a metaphor used to name a person, place or thing directly. |
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| A revival of classical standards and forms during the late 17th and 18th centuries. |
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| A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem. |
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| A writing style that attempts to depict the random flow of thoughts, emotions, memories, and associations running through a character's mind. |
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| A reference to a statement , person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics. sports, science or pop culture. |
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| A comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects. |
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| The character or force who opposes or blocks the protagonist in a narrative. |
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| The mood or feeling in a literary work. |
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| An account of a person's own life. |
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| An account of a person's life as written or told by another. |
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| The point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense in a plot. |
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| A struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions. |
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| All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests. |
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| The literal, dictionary definition of a word. |
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| A way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or group of people. |
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| A writer's or speaker's choice of words. |
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| A long, narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society. |
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| A moment of sudden insight or revelation that a character experiences. |
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| An inscription on a tombstone or a commemorative poem written about a dead person. |
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| A short piece of non-fiction prose that examines a single subject. |
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| A narrative that seeks to deliver a moral message and usually features animals. |
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| A scene that interrupts the present action and flashes back to events from an earlier time. |
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| A character who is used as a contrast to another character. |
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| The use of clues that hint at what is going to happen later in the plot. |
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| A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality. |
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| Poetry that is full of emotion and seems music-like. |
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| A word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or several works. |
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| A long, fictional prose narrative usually of more than 50,000 words. |
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| A complex, generally long lyric poem on a serious subject. |
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| A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas. |
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| A short, allegorical story that teaches a moral or religious lesson about life. |
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| An apparent contradiction that is actually true. |
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| The repetition of words, phrases, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or restate a similar theme. |
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| The imitation of a work of literature, art, or music for music or instruction. |
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| A kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. |
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| The series of related events that make up a story or drama. |
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| The vantage point from which a writer writes. |
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| The main character in a work of literature. |
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| A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike that have different meanings. |
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| The attempt to depict people and things as they really are, without idealization. |
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| Historically, a medieval verse narrative chronicling the adventures of brave knights or other heroes who must overcome grave danger for the love of a noble lady or a high ideal. |
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| A kind of writing that ridicules human weaknesses, vice, or folly in order to bring about social reform. |
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| A long speech in which a character who is usually alone or onstage expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings. |
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| The uncertainty or anxiety we feel about what is going to happen or happens next in a story. |
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| A person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself. |
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| The central idea of insight of a work of literature- it is expressed in the form of a sentence and generally tells the author's opinion on a topic. |
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