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| epics, tell stories (ex. Beowulf) |
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| tragic and true narrative poem, serious/formal in nature, having to do with an individual |
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| emphasized to create meter in poetry |
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| same sounding initial consonants |
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| an obvious sequence of events, including exposition, rising action, climax or crisis, falling action, resolution or denouement (day new ma) |
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| first part of the plot in which the author reveals information about characters and setting |
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| developments that add to the excitment of the story |
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| the high point of the plot |
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| the moment in the plot development where a relief of tension from the climax occurs |
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| everything after the moment of tension resolution in the plot |
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| the same phrase repeated in slightly different ways |
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| words that are not part of today's regular vocabulary |
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| refers to a familiar thing, event or person (draws upon prior knowledge) |
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| the author's choice of words |
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| when the author gives a nonhuman item or thing human characteristics |
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| events or descriptions in the plot that hint at what is to come later |
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| A foil is another character in a story who contrasts with the main character, usually to highlight one of their attributes |
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| a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh |
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| identify and establish the time, place and mood of the events of the story |
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| an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
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| when the audience sees a character's mistake but the character is yet unaware of it |
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| something incongruous or irregular compared to what is expected |
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| central idea, statement about life the author wants to express |
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| an explicitly stated theme upon which the author wants to elaborate |
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| a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
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| a type of English poetry containing 5 iambic feet; common to Shakespearean poetry and all English sonnets |
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| exhibiting an unstressed-stressed cadence |
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| a unit of cadence containing some combination of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| depictions of contemporary life and society as it was |
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| the person who tells a story |
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| first person point of view |
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| story with a humorous and improbably plot |
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