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| repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| Reference to a historical or literary person, place, thing or event with which the reader is assumed to be familiar |
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Character or force opposing protagonist;
cause of conflict |
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| remark spoken in an undertone to another character or to audience expressing inner thoughts |
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| Writer's account of their life |
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| Unrhymed poetry in iambic parameter |
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| people involved in the story (major/minor) |
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| A humorous scene incident, or speech in the middle of a serious drama; breaks tension and allows audience to prepare emotionally for events to come |
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| Struggle between opposing forces that move the plot forward |
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| pair of rhyming lines of poetry |
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| falling action; resolution of conflict; "untying" |
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particularly variety of language spoken in
one place by a distinct group of people |
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| Lyric poem in which a speaker addresses a silent or absent listener in a moment of high intensity or emotion |
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| Background and events leading to main idea or purpose of work |
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| The use of metaphors, similes, personification, etc. to enhance meaning |
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| Character who provides striking contrast to another character |
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| Providing hints of events to some in the story |
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| use of stressed/ 5 unstressed syllables |
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| words and phrases that recreate vivid sensory experiences for the reader |
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| Contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens |
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| a story down from the past often based on real people or events |
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| a biography or an account of historical events, especially one written from personal knowledge |
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| Comparing two unalike objects or effects |
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| The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader |
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| Traditional story once widely believed to be true but not based on fact |
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| (narrator, personal narrator) |
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| Words that make the sound of itself |
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| giving human qualities to objects or ideas |
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| Pattern of events including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution |
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| Narrative method in a short story, novel or nonfiction (1, 2, 3, limited or omniscient) |
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| Character or force that solves the conflict in literature |
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| repeated lines, symbols, structure, or ideas in a story or poem |
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| repeated lines, symbols, structure, or ideas in a story or poem |
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| When the sounds of accented vowels, and all succeeding sounds are identical |
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| Action that causes difficulties for the main character, making the conflict harder to resolve |
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| Time and place a story takes place |
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| Using "like" or "as" to compare unalike objects or ideas |
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| actor alone on stage with the purpose of sharing the actor's thoughts with the audience |
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| the voice that "talks" to the reader |
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| A group of lines that form a unit of poetry |
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| Using objects to bring about ideas or associations not literally part of the original objects |
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| main idea or purpose of the work of literature |
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| A work in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw |
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| Dignified or noble hero who has a character flaw that becomes his downfall |
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| a story in which a second meaning is to read beneath the surface |
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| repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or a line of poetry |
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| narrative poem that tells the adventures of a hero |
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| brings together two contradictory items |
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