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| using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literary meaning |
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| repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| direct or indirect reference to something which is commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art |
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| allowing multiple meanings to exist |
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| assignment of something to a time when it was not in existence |
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| In Greek drama, a startling discovery; moment of epiphany; time of revelation when a character discovers his true identity |
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| similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them |
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| repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other |
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| short narrative detailing an interesting episode or event |
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| rival, opponent, or enemy of the protagonist |
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| a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced |
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| brief statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle |
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| figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love (address to someone or something that can't answer) |
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| image, descriptive detail, character type that evokes a universal response |
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| dramatic convention by which an actor speaks directly to the audience or to another character but is not supposed to be heard by the other actors on the stage |
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| repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds |
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| use of words or phrases in a series without connectives such as "and" or "so" |
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| emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work |
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| joyful song about dawn and its beauty; morning serenade |
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| form of narrative poetry with set rhythm, rhyme scheme, and refrain |
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| ballad composed by a known author |
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| ballad composed by an anonymous author |
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| poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to provoke pity |
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| literary work, film, or stage production that mocks a person, a place, a thing, or an idea by using wit, irony, hyperbole, sarcasm, and/or understatement |
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| pause in verse dictated by a sense of natural speech rather than meter |
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| complete works of an author |
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| major division of an epic poem |
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| list of people, things, or attributes |
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| a purification of emotions |
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| creation of imaginary persons so that they seem lifelike |
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| author explicitly presents the character |
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| Indirect characterization |
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| actions and emotions of character allow reader to make assumptions |
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| character who does not change much in the course of a story |
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| character who changes as a result of the story's events |
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| technique of using light and dark imagery in a literary work |
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| pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts structurally reversed |
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| expression so often used that its freshness and clarity have worn off |
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| highest point of interest or action in a story |
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| use of slang or informalities in speech or writing - give a work a conversational, familiar tone - include local or regional dialects |
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| humorous play that has a happy ending |
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| comedy that ridicules the manners of a certain segment of society |
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| extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects; displays intellectual cleverness as a result of the unusual comparison being made - may be a brief metaphor or the framework of the entire poem |
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| struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces |
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| emotional implications and associations of words - may be private and personal, group (national, linguistic, racial), or universal |
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| two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
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| dictionary definition of a word, devoid of emotion, attitude, or color |
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| outcome or resolution of the plot, occurring after the climax |
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| outcome or resolution of the plot, occurring after the climax |
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| contrived event in a literary work or film; a plot weakness in which a writer makes up an incident |
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| way of speaking that is particular to a certain region or a certain group of people |
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| works designed to teach or instruct, especially moral or ethical principles |
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| harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds |
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| in folklore, the spirit double of a living person |
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| statement that is deliberately ambiguous, one of whose meanings is risque or suggestive |
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| literature written to be performed |
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| poem that reveals "a soul in action" through the speech of one character in a dramatic situation |
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| list of the characters in a play |
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| poetry which includes elements of drama |
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| tone of lamentation or commemoration for the dead |
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| formal lament, either for a dead person, or as an expression of a tragic sense of life |
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| omission of word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context |
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| continuation of the sense of grammatical construction of a line on the next verse or couplet |
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| long story told in the elevated language of poetry which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society |
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| more involved and ornate simile which extends through several lines of an epic |
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| epic convention in which speaker appeals to the muses |
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| brief, pithy, and often paradoxical saying expressing a universal truth in a few words |
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| quotation at the beginning of a poem, short story, book chapter, or other piece of literature which introduces or refers to the larger themes of the piece |
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| novel in which a character or characters tells the story through letters (epistles) sent to a friend, relative, etc. |
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| lyric poem in honor of a bride, bridegroom, or both |
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| point at which the essential nature of something is suddenly perceived (intuitive gasp of reality) |
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| inscription used to mark burial places |
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| adjective used to point out a characteristic of a person or thing |
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| less offensive substitutes for a generally unpleasant word or comment ("earthly remains" rather than corpse) |
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| interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes, a profanity |
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| in plot, the background information |
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| metaphor developed at great length in a literary work |
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| humorous tale popular in medieval times - often bawdy, dealing familiarly with clergy, ridiculing womanhood, and easily understandable |
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| brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters |
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| humorous play based on a silly plot, ridiculous situations and comic dialogue |
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| language using one or more figures of speech; not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid |
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| device used to produce figurative language |
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| scene which breaks into a story to show earlier part of the action |
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| secondary character who contrasts with a major character |
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| poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
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| excessive boasting; incessant bragging |
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| major category into which a literary work fits |
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| fiction (short stories, novels) and nonfiction (biographies, autobiographies) |
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| lyric, dramatic, narrative, epic, etc. |
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| tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, etc. |
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| style of writing marked by magic, supernatural, mystery; horrors abound! |
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| serious character flaw of the main character (protagonist) of a Greek tragedy. |
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| stage directions in a play manuscripts indicating that entering characters are playing hautboys (OH bwah), which are Elizabethan oboes |
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| rhymed couplets in iambic pentameter |
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| comedy that relies on wit and subtle irony or sarcasm. usually focuses on the everyday life of upper class. generally verbal rather than physical. |
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| sermon or moralistic lecture |
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| deliberate exaggeration or overstatement |
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| short lyric poem usually about shepherds |
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| sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions |
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| latin phrase for in the middle of things. it means that a story begins in the middle of the part, usually at an exciting part |
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| rhyme which occurs within one line of a poem |
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| intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack |
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| reversal of the normal word order of a sentence |
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