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| a narrative in which characters and settings stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities |
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| repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of words that are close together in a poem |
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| comparison made between two things to show how they are alike in some respects |
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| very very brief story, usually told to make a point |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together |
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| person in a story, poem, or play |
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| moment of great emotional intensity or suspense in a plot |
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| struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces |
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| all the meanings, associations, or emotions that have come to be attached to some words, in addition to their literal dictionary definintions, or denotations |
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| way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region or a particular group of people |
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| a writers or speakers choice of words |
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| type of writing that explains, gives information, defines, or clarifies an idea |
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| word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level |
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| scene in a movie, play short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to flash backward and tell what happend at an earlier time |
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| a scene in a movie, play, short story, novel, or narrative poem that interrupts present action of the plot to shift into the future |
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| the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot |
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| the category that a work of literature is classidied under. five major genres in literature are nonfition, fiction, poetry, drama and myth |
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| figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect |
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| language that appeals to the senses |
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| contrast between expectation and reality- between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true |
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| figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becoms another thing without the use of the word likes, as, than, or resembles |
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| a storys atmosphere or the feeling it evokes |
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| type of writing or speaking that tells about a series of related events |
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| the voice telling the story |
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| statement or situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth |
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| repetition of words, phrases or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or that state a similar idea |
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| kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is taked about asi id it were human |
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| series of related events that make up a story or drama |
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| vantage point from which a writer tells a story. in broad terms there are three possible points of view; omniscient, first person and third person limited |
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| the time and place of a story or play |
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| main character in fiction of drama |
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| figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using a word such as like, as, resembles, or than |
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| the particular way in which a writer uses language |
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| person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well |
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| central idea of a work of literature |
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| Attutude a writer takes toward a subject, a character, or the audience |
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| the writers or speakers distinctive use of language in a text |
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basic situation or...
the conflict....
main event...
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resolution.. |
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expostion
problem
complications
moment of of great emotional intensity or suspence
denoument |
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| narrater knows everything there is to know about the characters and their problems |
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| does not always know what is happening in the story |
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| third person limited point of view |
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| the narrator who plays no part in the story zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of this one character |
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