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| Category of language defined by a trade or profession. |
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| Light humorous style of fixed form poetry. aabba |
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| Author restricts the narrator to the single perspective of either a major or minor character. |
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| A sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page. Poetry: lines are measured by the number of feet they contain. |
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| Narrative poem that is written in deliberate imitation of the language, form, and spirit of the traditional ballad. |
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| Both the facts of an author's personal life and the text itself to the social and intellectual currents in which the author composed the work. Place work in the context of its time and sometimes make connections with other literary works that may have influenced the author. |
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| Setting, character, action, object, name, or anything else in a work that maintains its literal significance while suggesting other meanings. |
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| Associated with physical action and is less intellectual. |
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| Type of brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker. |
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| Focuses on ideological content of a work. Culture, race, class, and power. |
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| Use literature to describe the competing socioeconomic interests that too often advance capitalist interests such as money and power than socialist interests such as morality and justice. |
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| Line that ends with a stressed syllable. |
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| Rhyming of single syllable words like cat and hat. |
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| Any literary work that relies on implausible events and sensational action for its effect.Usually ends happily |
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| Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things |
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| Rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem. |
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| Metaphor where something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it. |
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| Correct language usage but is less elevated than formal diction, reflects the way most educated people speak. |
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| Based on the lives of saints. |
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| Allegorical stories in which virtues and vices are personified to teach humanity how to achieve salvation. |
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| Reader of audience is offered reasons for how the characters behave, what they say, and the decisions they make. |
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| Dramatize stories from the Bible. |
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| Mythological Strategies/ Criticism |
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| Identifies what in a work creates deep universal responses in readers. Look for underlying, recurrent patterns in literature that reveal universal meanings and basic human experiences for readers.a |
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| Characterized by youthful innocence |
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| Voice of the person telling the story. |
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| Movement that human beings are apart of nature and subject to its laws. Heredity and envoronment shape and control people's lives. |
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| Off Rhyme, slant rhyme, and approximate rhyme. The sounds are almost but not exactly alike. |
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| Narration that allows a character's actions and thoughts to speak fo themselves. |
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| Suggest that detailed analysis of the language of a literary text can uncover important layers of meaining in that work. |
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| Emphasizes the interaction between the historic context of the work and a moderns reader's understanding and interpretation of the work. |
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| Third person narrator who does not see into the mid of any character. |
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| Poetic stanza of eight lines, usually forming one part of a sonnet. |
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| Lengthy lyric poem that often expresses lofty emotions in a dignified style. |
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| Boy's unconscious rivalry with his father for his mother's love and his desire to eliminate his father in order to take his place. |
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| Near rhyme, slant rhyme, and approximate rhyme, the sounds are almost but not exactly alike. |
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| All knowing narrator who is not a character in the story and who can move from place to place. |
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| A play that takes place in a single location and unfolds as one continuous action. |
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| Word sounds like it denotes. |
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| Free verse, not conform to established patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza. Rhythmic qualities from repetition of words, phrases, or grammatical structures. |
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| "dancing place" seats for watching plays in ancient Greece. |
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| Refers to works whose formal characteristics are not rigidly predetermined but follow the movement of thought or emotion being expressed. |
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| Hyperbole, boldly exaggerated statement. |
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| Condensed form of paradox in which two contradictory words are used together. |
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| Statement initially appearing to be contradictory but turns out to make sense. |
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| Prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language. |
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| Where the chorus makes its first entrance and gives its perspective on what the audience has learned in the prologue. |
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| Humorous imitation of another, usually serious work. |
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| Mask, it is a speaker created by a writer to tell a story or to speak in a poem. |
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| Form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. |
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| Italian sonnet, divided into an octave which typically rhymes abbaabba and a sestet. |
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| Open form poetry in which the poet arranges the lines of the poem so as to create a particular shape on the page. |
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| Action by a character in a story that seems reasonable, given the motivations presented. |
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| General term for a work of dramatic literature |
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| Author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus. |
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| Refers to the way poets sometimes employ an elevated diction that deviates significantly from the common speech and writing of their time. |
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| Refers to who tells us a story and how it is told. |
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| Focuses on the study of cultural behavior and expression in relationship to the colonized world. Analysis of literary works written by writers from countries and cultures that at one time have been controlled by colonizing powers. |
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| Drama that presents a social issue in order to awaken the audience to it. |
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| Opening speech or dialogue of a play that usually gives the exposition necessary to follow the subsequent action. |
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| Play on words that relies on a word's having more than one meaning or sounding like another word. |
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| Open form poetry that is printed as prose and represents the most clear opposite of fixed form poetry. |
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| Overall metrical structure of a poem. |
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| Main character of a narrative. |
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| Psychological Strategies/Criticism |
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| Draws upon psychoanalytic theories. Human unconscious. |
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| Divides the plot into the rising action, climax, and falling action |
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