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| A LITERARY DEVICE IN WHICH A DIRECT COMPARISON IS MADE BETWEEN TWO THINGS ESSENTIALLY UNLIKE. |
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| A CHARACTER IN A STORY OR POEM WHO DECEIVES, FRUSTRATES, OR WORKS AGAINST THE MAIN CHARACTER, OR PROTAGONIST, IN SOME WAY. |
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| REPETITION OF THE SAME SOUND IN A SEQUENCE OF WORDS, USUALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF A WORD. |
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| The opening portion os a narrative or drama. |
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| Repeating identical or similar vowels (especially in stressed syllables) in nearby words. |
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| The extra tinge or taint of meaning each word carries beyond the minimal, strict definition found in a dictionary. Associations and implications that go beyond the written word. |
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| The minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary, disregarding any historical or emotional connotation. dictionary definition of a word |
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| An epic in its most specific sense is a genre of classical poetry |
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| Christian thinkers used this term to signify a manifestation of God's presence in the world. |
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| A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions. |
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| (1) A short poem (usually no more than 50-60 lines, and often only a dozen lines long) written in a repeating stanzaic form, often designed to be set to music. (2) Any poem having the form and musical quality of a song. (3) As an adjective, lyric can also be applied to any prose or verse characterized by direct, spontaneous outpouring of intense feeling. |
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| Monologue can also be used to refer to a character speaking aloud to himself, or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage. |
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| The driving force by which humans achieve their goals. |
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| A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature. |
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| the act of telling a sequence of events, often in chronological order. |
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| The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect. use of words that imitate sounds. |
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| An external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self, or an external representation of oneself that might be largely accurate, but involves exaggerating certain characteristics and minimizing others. |
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| The general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs; the setting of an episode or scene within a work is the particular physical location in which it takes place. |
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| A subcategory within a particular genre. |
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| In its broadest sense, a novel is any extended fictional prose narrative focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary characters. |
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| Prose literature, esp. short stories and novels, about imaginary events and people. |
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| Prose writing based on facts, such as biography or history. |
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| biographical novel that concentrates on an individual’s youth and his social and moral initiation into adulthood. |
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| Any novel that takes the form of a series of letters--either written by one character or several characters. |
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| ~ A humorous novel in which the plot consists of a young knave's misadventures and escapades narrated in comic or satiric scenes. |
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| An extended fictional prose narrative that is longer than a short story, but not quite as long as a novel. |
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| A minor or subordinate secondary plot, often involving a deuteragonist's struggles, which takes place simultaneously with a larger plot, usually involving the protagonist. |
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| sequence of events in a story, usually involves characters and a conflict |
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| a form of discourse that explains, defines, and interprets. |
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| use of hints and clues to suggest what Will happen later in the story, often used to build suspense or tension in a story |
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| The point at which a character understands his or her situation as it really is. |
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| A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part of a play's or story's plot leading up to the climax. |
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| Crisis or Turning Point- A point of great tension in a narrative that determines how the action will come out. |
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| The point in the plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest. After this point, nothing can remain the same; greatest turning point in the story. |
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| In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution. |
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| The exact meaning of a word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word may imply. |
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| A protagonist is considered to be the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem. |
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| a character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works again the main character, or protagonist, in some way. |
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| A character whose actions are inspiring or noble. Tragic heroes are noble and inspiring but have a fault or make a mistake which leads to their downfall. |
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| A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. |
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| the perspective or vantage point from which a story or poem is told. Three common points of view include: first-person, omniscient, and third person limited. |
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| the story is relayed by a narrator who is also a character within the story, so that the narrator reveals the plot by referring to this viewpoint character as "I" (or, when plural, "we"). |
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| employs a narrator who tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings; instead it gives an objective, unbiased point of view. |
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| the reader is "limited" to the thoughts of some particular character (often the protagonist) as in the first-person mode (though still giving personal descriptions using "he", "she", "it", and "they", but not "I"). |
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| This is a tale told from the point of view of a storyteller who plays no part in the story but knows all the facts, including the characters' thoughts. |
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| a literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem. |
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| is a trope in which the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express. |
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| actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected. |
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| irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. |
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| a type of language that varies from the norms of literal language, in which words mean exactly what they say. |
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| a figure of speech that addresses (talks to) a dead or non present person, or an object. |
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| is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. |
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| Hyperbole (Overstatement) |
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| boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true. |
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| a literary device in which a direct comparison is made between two things essentially unlike |
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| a figure of speech which substitutes one term with another that is being associated with the that term. |
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| ~ A statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. |
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| a literary device in which human attributes are given to a non-human such as an animal, object, or concept |
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| a literary device in which a direct comparison is made between two things essentially unlike using the words “like” or “as.” |
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| A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole. |
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| is a literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words. |
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| literary device that says less than intended. Oppositive of hyperbole. Usually has an ironic effect, and sometimes may be used for comic purposes. |
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| The selection of words in a literary work. |
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| the writer’s attitude toward the story, poem, characters, or audience. A writer’s tone may be formal or informal, friendly or anxious, personal, or arrogant. |
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| The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. |
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| an insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work |
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| The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. |
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| story or poem in which the characters, setting, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. Can be read for a literal meaning and on a second, symbolic meaning. |
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| a brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature. |
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| ~ an actor’s speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage. |
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| A customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable, or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle. |
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| The conversation between characters in a drama or narrative. A dialogue occurs in most works of literature. |
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| A god who resolves the entanglements of a play by supernatural intervention. |
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| scene that interrupts the normal chronological flow of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time |
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| ~ is a literary technique where the narrative starts in the middle of the story instead of from its beginning. |
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| A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |
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| A long speech made by a character who is onstage alone and who reveals his/her private thoughts and feelings to the audience. |
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| a sonnet is a distinctive poetic style that uses system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines, arranged in a set rhyme scheme or pattern |
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