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| stop oneself from doing something. |
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| a firm decision to do or not to do something. |
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| correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. |
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| A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song |
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| a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. |
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| In the rising action, a series of events build toward the point of greatest interest. |
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| round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader. |
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| the use of irony to mock or convey contempt |
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| Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government or society itself, into improvement. |
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| In works of narrative (especially fictional), the literary element setting includes the historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place |
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| a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion). |
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| a type of language consisting of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal |
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| A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention |
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| a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse. |
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| A static character, in this vocabulary, is one that does not undergo important change in the course of the story |
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| A stock character is a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition. |
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| a particular procedure by which something is done; a manner or way. |
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| Suspense is a feeling of pleasurable fascination and scrub excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from an unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment |
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| the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. |
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| the subject of a talk, piece of writing, exhibition, etc.; a topic. |
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| Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. |
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| an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. |
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| Understatement is a form of speech or disclosure which contains an expression of lesser strength than would be expected. |
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