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| The comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship. |
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| Casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event. |
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| A form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. |
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| Anything beyond the specific words of a literary work that may be relevant to understanding the meaning. |
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| The method used by a writer to develop a character. |
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| A work intended to interest, involve, and amuse the reader or audience, in which no terrible disaster occurs and that ends happily for the main characters. |
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| A short, simple story, usually with animals as characters, designed to teach a moral truth. |
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| The imaginative projection into another's feelings, a state of total identification with another's situation, condition, and thoughts. |
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| Disrespect for something sacred. |
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| A short literary composition on a particular theme or topic, usually in prose and generally thoughtful and interpretative. |
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| A literary composition involving conflict, action crisis and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience. |
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| Potentially confusing words and phrases used in an occupation, trade, or field of study. |
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| An epithet is a word which makes the reader see the object described in a clearer or sharper light. |
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| Refers to literature or other types of art that are instructional or informative. |
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| A word or phrase used in an easy, informal style of writing or speaking. |
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| Refers literally to an inscription carved on a gravestone. |
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| Language that is crude, gross, and offensive. |
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| An author's choice of words based on their correctness, clearness, and effectiveness. |
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| A long narrative poem that tells of the deeds and adventures of a hero. |
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| Refers to highly informal and sub-standard vocabulary which may exist for some time and then vanish. |
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| Writing that is intended to explain something that's difficult to understand. |
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| An often repeated idea/theme in literature. |
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| Astatement that seems contrary to common sense, yet may, in fact, be true. |
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| The feeling a text arouses in the reader. |
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| The vantage point from which the story is told. |
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| The author tells the story, using the third person, knowing all and free to tell us anything, including what the characters are thinking or feeling and why they act as they do. |
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| The author tells the story, using the third person, but is limited to a complete knowledge of one character in the story and tells us only what that one character thinks, feels, sees, or hears. |
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| Presents only action and dialogue; readers do not get into the thoughts of any characters. |
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| A literary tone used to make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting or changing the subject of the attack. |
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| A person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else. |
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| The statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing. |
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| The overall feeling, effect of an author's words. |
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| A literary work in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw or forces beyond his/her control. |
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| Substitution of one word for another. |
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| Emphasizing by talking about it in a restrained manner. |
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| A prose work longer that the standard short story, but shorter than a novel. |
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| Writing based on the writer's memory of a particular time, place, or incident. |
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| Giving hints/ clue of what is to come later in the story. |
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| The use of words to create a picture in the reader's mind, based on sensory details. |
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| Using a word/phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning. |
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| Where the audience or reader is aware of something important, of which the characters in the story are not aware. |
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