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– A comparison between two things to compare their similarities; simile
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Anything beyond the specific words that may be relevant to the meaning; contexts may be economic, religious, social, cultural, historical, literary, biographical, etc.
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Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and parallelism
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an author intentionally suggests more than one interpretation of a situation; when unintentional, the situation is said to be “vague”. Uncertainty adds interest and urgency
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brief, indirect reference to another literary work; way of associating tone or theme of one work to another
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| – a rhetorical pause or digression to address a person directly |
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| – a short, pithy and instructive statement of truth |
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| a rhetorical trope formed by repeating the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or near the beginning of the next; generated in a series for beauty or logical progression. Used for reinforcement of an idea or word |
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a story that makes sense on a literal level, but also conveys an abstract level of meaning. Deeper meaning is usually spiritual, moral, or political. one-dimensional and applies to character, setting, or action.
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| author gives human characteristics to nonhuman objects |
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| character that opposes the hero, or protagonist |
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| movement in literary criticism, which denies that literature, has any objective, enduring, or universal meaning; the reduction of literary meaning to political motives, power struggles, and subjective emotion |
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| the bare events in a story. Action is NOT the same thing as plot, which includes the meaning and purpose of the events |
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| the recurrence of initial consonant sounds of different words within the same sentence; calls attention to the phrase |
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| unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter |
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| use of similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants |
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| a conflict is resolved through means that seem unrelated to the story; negative, critical term |
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| an explicit or literal meaning of a word used in order to emphasize a specific, important fact |
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| concluding action of a drama following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot; typically includes death or moral destruction of the protagonist |
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| crossing parallelism, where the second part of grammatical construction is balanced by the first part, only in reverse order |
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| decisive moment and turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story; point of greatest tension |
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| final outcome or unraveling of the main dramatic complications in a play, novel, or other work of literature |
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| harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones |
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| lines which are spoken by/between the characters in a narrative; reveals characterization and advances plot |
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| literary structure in which parallel ideas are stated in one order, then reversed |
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| pause, metrical or rhetorical, occurring somewhere in a line of poetry may or may not be typographically indicated |
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| person in a literary work; or, the traits of a person in a literary work |
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| repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase |
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| struggle between opposing forces that provides the central action and interest in any literary plot; creates interest and presents a challenge/obstacle which needs to be overcome |
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| suggested, implied, or evocative meaning |
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| unusual, elaborate or startling analogy |
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| words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowel sounds are different |
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