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| Main character that engages the reader's interest and empathy. |
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| Figure of speech that compares two things using words such as like or as. |
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| Figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as. |
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| A brief reference to a person, place, event, or idea in history or literature. |
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| Associations and implications that go beyond the literal meaning of a word. Eagle is associated with freedom and liberty. |
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| A rhyme that is imperfect, typically in the vowel sounds (ex: body and bloody). |
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| A foot of two syllables, with a weak stress followed by a strong. |
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| Prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem, in your own language. |
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| Ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns such as phrases, clauses and sentences. |
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| Person, object, image, word, or, event that evokes range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance. |
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| A poem that tells a story. |
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| Word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses. |
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| An idea or expression that has become tired and trite from overuse. |
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| Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter. |
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| A writers choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to create meaning. |
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| Approach to literature which suggests that knowledge of the author's life experiences can aid in the understanding of his or her work. |
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| Central meaning in a literary work. |
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| The author's implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places and events in a work as reveled by the elements of an authors style. |
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| Grouping of lines, set off by space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme. |
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| Rhythmic patterns of stresses that recurs in a poem. |
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