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| the overall emotional atmosphere created in a literary work. |
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| the patterns of happenings or arrangement in a story. |
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| a brief explanation, in outline form, of the patterns of happenings or arrangement in a story. |
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| the character in a story or drama in whom the action centers. The hero or heroine who is presented with a problem. |
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| the attempt to present real life as at actually is without distortion or idealization by the author. The story tells itself. |
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| repetition in a regular pattern. |
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| the pattern of rhymes used in a stanza, verse or poem. It is usually denoted by letters. |
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| the section of most narratives in which the tension between the opposing forces (conflict) builds to a climax. |
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| an attempt to present life in a picturesque, fanciful, exotic, emotional or imaginative manner. Often reflects a writer's interest in nature and love of supernatural. It is the opposite of realism since the author's subjectivity is now present. |
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| a literary art of diminishing a subject by making it appear ridiculous or evoking toward it an attitude of ridicule, contempt or scorn to the end that man may improve his institutions. |
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| the time and place of the events in the story; the physical background |
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| a speech delivered by a character alone to reveal his thoughts and problems. |
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| a lyric poem with a traditional form of fourteen iambic pentameter lines. |
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| a unit verse made up of a particular pattern line of lengths and rhymes. |
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| a writer's distinctive handling of a language. |
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| something relatively concrete, such as an object, action, or character that signifies something relatively abstract such as a concept or idea |
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| the main idea of a literary work, the statement the author wished to make about the meaning of life |
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| the attitude of the author toward his/her subject |
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| a term referring to any narrative writing in which the protagonist suffers the disaster after a struggle, but faces that disaster in such a way to become a hero |
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| making something less important than it really is |
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| the most common meter in English verse. it consists of a line 10 syllables long that is accented on every 2nd beat (it is the most common manner in which we speak English) |
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