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| the study and interpretation of literature |
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| the abstract moral or observation which a literary work tells or suggests through action, character, setting, ect. |
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| the type of literature which seeks moral improvement through ridiculing the bad and the ugly |
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| fictional personage in literary work |
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| the chief character in a literary work |
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| the principal opposing character to the protagonist |
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| a character whose primary function is to set off another character |
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| the action or events of a story, considered as a unit |
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| the conclusion or resolution of the plot |
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| the struggle which actuates the plot: man against man, himself, society, etc. |
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| the physical situation in which a work takes place. Often has symbolic value |
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| the perspective from which a literary work is told-1st person, 3rd person |
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| literally a mask: the "second self" created by an author to present the narrative |
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| narrative point-of-view which seeks to present the mental flow of a character: ultimate realism |
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| technically, using laguage in an unusual way--generally it is meant to refer language that is symbolic |
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| language that refers to ideas, concepts, and qualities as opposed to tangible, percepible, immediate things (concrete): God, honor, love. |
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| something that stands or exists on its own while also serving to stand for something else. Expressing the abstract by using the concrete. |
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| words of sensory experience, akin to concrete, and often symbolic in significance. An image is a sensory picture: anything with a specific physical being. |
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| a comparision between two things with like or as |
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| a direct or implied comparison of unlike things |
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| a sustained comparison between two things. Seeks to make something more vivid and impressive by using concrete, specific items of comparison. |
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| a lengthy narrative in which abstract qualities are personified as characters. |
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| the literal, dictionary definition of a word. |
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| the emotional, historical, and other associative and suggestive meanings attached to a word. |
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| a reference to a previous literary work or character, or more generally an allusion to something outside a work. |
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| a word, phrase, or situation which maybe interpreted in more than one way. |
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| deliberate overstatement for rhetorical effect. |
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| an ironical figure which de-emphasizes the importance of a statement |
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| saying one thing while meaning something else. Irony is a figure of speech which points outthe difference between apperances and reality. |
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| deliberately combininb opposite or illogical words |
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| a statement which seemingly contradictory or illogical is true |
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| a figure which endows animals, ideas, objects, and abstractions with human attributes or personality. |
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| mixing sensory perception, specificaly using one sense to describe another. |
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