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| a work where characters and setting could represent other things |
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| words beginning with the same consonants |
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| an indirect reference to history, mythology, or literature |
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| the negative force in a story |
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| where an inanimate entity is addressed directly |
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| a typical specimen, ideal, or classic example |
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| a remark made by an actor that the other actors on stage cannot hear |
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| the similarity or the repetition of two or more vowel consonant sounds |
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| unrhymed poetry that has regular rhythm and line length |
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| a character with many different attributes |
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| stays the same throughout the plot sequence |
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| changes over the plot sequence |
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| a source of quarrel within the character's self |
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| an outside force causing quarrel for the character |
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| the major problem in a plot |
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| implied additional meaning |
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| similarity between consonants |
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| spoken clarity, choice of words |
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| rhyme scheme at the end of a line |
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| continuation to the next line |
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| the protagonist in an epic |
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| lengthy simile used in narrative poetry |
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| descriptive word or phrase; part of a characterization |
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| story that teaches a lesson - animals |
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| literary devices that provide sensory detail |
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| a sudden memory of a previous event |
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| a character who shows great contrast to another - opposite |
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| gives hints to what will come next |
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| word in relation to its root; look or sound of a word |
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| poem with no set rhyme, rhythm, or line length |
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| irony from a particular conflict or outcome |
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| when the audience knows one meaning and the characters know another |
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| an incongruity with a character's words versus what happens/happened |
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| comparison without like or as, saying one thing is another |
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| a speech intended for all to hear |
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| the feeling of a literary work |
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| stories passed through generations that are not necessarily true |
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| to opposite things (o loving hate) |
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| something absurd or contradictory |
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| giving inanimate objects human emotions/traits |
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| revelation of a story's background |
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| events leading to resolution |
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| when conflict is resolved |
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| last exciting force event |
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| personal account (I, me, my, myself) |
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| 3rd person language, 1st person limitation |
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| knows everyones thoughts and feelings |
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| positive force in a story |
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| particular poetry pattern |
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| use of wit to criticize behavior |
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| time, place, surroundings |
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| comparison using like or as |
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| rhyme with obscure words/rhymes with any consonant of the same sound |
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| a character speaking to themselves and the audience only |
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| 14 lines rhyming poem with set shakespearean structure (3 quatrains of equal rhyme ending in a couplet) and petrarchan (first octave: abbaabba last 8 arranged in any ways) |
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| division of a poem, common types: couplet, quatrain, octave |
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| rhyme, rhythm, iambic pentameter |
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| something that is metaphoric to something else |
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| figure of speech where a part of something is referred to as the whole or vice versa (sail for boat) |
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| organization of words in sentences |
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| a character flaw that results in a tragedy |
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| main character in a tragedy |
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| valuing something less that its worth, like a hyperbole but under exaggerating |
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