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| PIlgrim's Progress is the most renowned story of this genre. |
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| A story in verse or prose with characters representing virtues and vices. There are two meanings, symbolic and literal. |
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| The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words, as in these lines from Coleridge: "The fait breeze flew, the white foam flew / the Furrow followed thee." |
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| A reference to a well known person, place or situation from history, art, music, or literature. |
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| A comparison of two things that are alike in some ways. |
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| A short narrative about an interesting event, often used to make a point. |
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| A person or force working against the hero or central character of a work. |
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| The assignment of human characteristics to animals, inanimate objects, or gods. |
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| A wise saying, usually short and to the point. |
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| A symbol, image, plot pattern, or character type that occurs often in literature, such as the hero on a dangerous quest. |
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| The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds. |
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| "Ah, broken is the golden bowl--the spirit flown forever" is an example of what literary element? |
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| The dominant mood or feeling of a literary work. |
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| A narrative song or poem. |
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| Poetry or lines of dramatic verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| The rhythmic rise and fall or oral language. |
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| A pause or break in the meter or rhythm of a line of verse |
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| The repetition of final consonant sounds in words containing different vowels. (Yard bird or fresh cash) |
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| A stanza made up of two rhyming lines that follow the same rhythmic pattern. |
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| The outcome, or resolution, of the plot. |
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| An author's choice of words. |
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| A form of dramatic poetry in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. |
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| Rhyming of words at the end of lines. |
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| The continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem to another to complete meaning and grammatical structure (also called a run-on line). |
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| Quote from another work suggesting the central theme of the work at hand. |
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| A brief statement commemorating a dead person, often inscribed on a gravestone. |
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