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| The act of talking while, or as if, alone. |
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| A community's cultural and historical traditions passed down by word of mouth |
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| Obvious and intentional exaggeration. |
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| A special variety of a language |
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| Short narratives that add human interest |
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| Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. |
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| Short nonfiction work about a particular subject |
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| Poem’s rhythmical pattern |
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| Ordinary form of written language |
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| Consists of five unrhymed lines with a pattern of five, seven, five, seven, seven seven syllables |
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| A reference to a well known work, person, or place. |
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| A three line poem with the first and third lines having five syllables, and the second having seven syllables. |
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| Use of words that imitate sounds. |
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| A figure of speech that compares two unlike ideas using like or as. |
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| history of a persons life written or told by that person. |
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| form of writing that expresses emotion. |
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| a short poem of songlike quality |
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| A piece of literature written in meter. |
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| the state of being undecided or undetermined. |
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| High point of the story, novel, or play |
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| Is a type of writing when the author uses many ideas that do not exist |
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| The reason why somebody or something does an action |
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| Repetition of the end of words that sound similar |
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| Its is the attitude that the writer has towards his audience at a specific moment |
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| repetition of a vowel sound in conjunctions with dissimilar consonant sounds. |
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| words or actions of a character mean something different to the reader than to the character. |
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| Writing or speech that attempts to persuade. |
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| Group of lines in a poem considered to be a unit. |
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| A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as “O Death, where is thy sting?” |
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| One who changes in the course of a work. |
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| The use of clues to suggest events that have yet to occur. |
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| Literary movement that flourished between 1912 and 1927 |
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| A speech given delivered entirely by one person or character |
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| rhyming sounds are similar, but not exact. |
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| A written account of another person’s life |
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| a long narrative poem about the deeds of gods or heroes. |
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| A figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something, used to suggest a resemblance |
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| Point of view is the perspective from which a story is told |
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| Anything that stands for, or represents, something else |
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| The adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work |
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| Conversation between characters |
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| Word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses |
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| A short, simple story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson |
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| Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
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| Also called the mood, is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. |
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| poetic form in which a single character addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment. |
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| Being the primary meaning of the word or words. |
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| The sequence of events in which each event results from a previous event. |
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| A conclusion that is unexpected by the reader. |
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| the repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables. |
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| a character who provides a contrast to another character |
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| a poem that tells a story |
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| Writing that tells about imaginary events that involve science or technology. |
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| a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant. |
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| The turning point in a story. |
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| Descriptive language that is used in literature to create word pictures for readers. |
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| A humorous imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing. |
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| The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of the poem. |
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| A collision, or disagreement. A clash, or opposition. |
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| An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented |
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| A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society. |
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| The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza. |
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| A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances |
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| the act of creating and devoloping a character |
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| when something is described as something else using several comparisons. |
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| A lesson taught by a story |
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| Using a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence more than once. |
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| The central message that comes from the story. |
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| To show or indicate beforehand |
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| a poem that tells a story and has character, setting, conflict, and plot |
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| Language that uses words from the 5 senses |
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