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| true story about a person written by that same person |
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| true story about a famous person but not written by that person |
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| conversation between two characters or people |
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| words in italics telling the actor what to do |
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| listing of characters in a play |
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| a major division within a play |
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| a story in which the protagonist is defeated |
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| the character who opposes the main character |
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| the main character who wants to achieve something |
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| type of literature (fictio, non-fiction...) |
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| man, nature, self, society, technology |
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| similar sounding words at the end of lines of poetry |
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| pattern of beats or stresses in a poem |
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| in literature, the difference between what appears to be true and what really is true |
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| when the audience knows more about what's happening than the character |
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| when a character says the opposite of what he actually means |
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| when a situation turns out differently than what the reader/viewer expects |
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| giving life-like qualities to an inanimate object |
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| comparing 2 unlike things without using "like" or "as" |
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| comparing 2 unlike things using "like" or "as" |
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| repitition of first consonant sounds (Peter Piper picked...) |
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| gross exaggeration for dramatic effect |
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| repeated line(s) in a poem or song |
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| unit of poetry; similar to a paragraph in prose |
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| writing arranged into sentences and paragraphs |
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| poetry that tells a story and makes a hero out of its protagonist |
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| something that stands for or represents something else |
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| an expression or saying that is not meant to be taken literally |
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| figure of speech; figurative language |
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| a reocurring symbol throughout a literary work |
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| English taught in grammar books and used in essays |
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| English used in sophisticated writing |
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| English used when two friends are having a casual conversation |
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| English that uses words and phrases that have not made it into the dicitonary |
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| technical language used by people in the same profession |
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| highest point of dramatic tension in a work of fiction |
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| in a work of fiction, the events leading up to the high point |
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| in a work of fiction, the events leading down from the high point |
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| a long work of prose fiction |
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| a short work of prose fiction |
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| in an essay, the part that outlines what the writer intends to do |
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| the writing strategy that produces clear, well-written answers |
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| the overall or underlying meaning of a literary work |
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| in literature, a fictional person |
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| in grammar, 3 periods indicating a truncated quote |
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| a word or phrase that moves the reader smoothly from one line to the next |
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| the time and place in which a story takes place |
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| a type of language in which the speaker or writer's words mean exactly what they say |
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| the dictionary definition of a word |
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| the feeling or emotion that a word suggests to people |
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| the events of a story; no deeper meaning |
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| a genre of literature using vivid imagery, powerful language and figurative language; may use rhythm and rhyme as well |
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| a story having fictional elements within a historically accurate setting |
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| the pattern of rhyme that a poet chooses for a particular poem |
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| the skillful use of words to create a picture in the reader's mind |
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| when an actor speaks alone on the stage |
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| written representation of natural sounds (animals, wind, etc.) |
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| parentheses containing a page or line # used after a quote |
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