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| a reference to a literary, mythological or historical person, place or thing |
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| a contrast between appearance and reality; not what one would expect |
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| the use of any object, person, place or action that both has a meaning in itself and stands for something else |
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| the use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur |
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| a recurrent element in a literary work |
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| a type of character, action, or situation that occurs over and over |
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| the wwriter's attitude toward his or her subject |
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| a central message or insight into life revealed through the literary work |
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| the perspective from which a story is told |
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| the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
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| a device in which words, sounds, and/or ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm |
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| the time and place of the action of a literary work |
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| the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, and actions by appealing to the 5 senses |
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| the central character, and focus of interrest who is trying to accomplish or overcome an adversity, and has the ability to adapt to new circumstances |
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| the character opposing the protagonist; can be a person, idea or force |
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| the specific dictionary definition of a word |
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| the emotions or associations a word normally arousesin people using, hearing or readyg the word |
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| a character that undergoes a change in actions or beliefs during the course of a story |
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| a character that does not grow or change throughout the story, that ends as he/she began |
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| when elements of a statement contradict each other |
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| a comparison of 2 different things or ideas through the use of the words LIKE or AS |
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| a comparison of 2 unlike things not using like or as |
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| an accepted phrase or expression having a meaning different from the literal |
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| a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression |
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| writing that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristic |
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| a play on words that are similar in sound but have sharply differnt meanings |
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| a deliberate, extravagant and often outrageous exaggeration |
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| A monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone |
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| the character does not necessarily give spoken words, but rather the internal or emotional thoughts or feelings themselves |
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| a few words spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words |
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| A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character |
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| involves a situation in a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know |
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| A serious play in which the chief character passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final, devastating catastrophe |
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| this is the imperfection in the character that causes the character’s downfall |
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| a force that predetermines events |
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| A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns |
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| A group of singers who stand alongside or off stage from the principal performers in a dramatic or musical performance |
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| Two lines--the second line immediately following the first--of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit |
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