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| A tale in verse or prose in which chatacters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities |
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| The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonat clusters, in a group of words |
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| A reference to a person, place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to recognize |
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| A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narritive; rival of the hero |
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| The repetition of similar vowel sounds, ecpecially in poetry |
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| the mood or feeling of a literary work |
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| A person's account of their own life |
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| A detailed account of a person's life written by another person |
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| Verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| The point of greatest interest |
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| action leading to the climax |
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| Falling Action or Resolution |
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| All action after the climax |
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| A struggle between two opposing forces or chacaters |
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| All the emotions and associations that a word or phrase may arouse |
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| The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words |
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| Two lines of poetry that rhyme |
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| The dictionary meaning of a word |
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| That Part of a narrative in which important background info is reavealed |
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| Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense |
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| A word or expression thats not meant on a literal sense |
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| A character who sets off another character by contrast |
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| Verse that has no metrical patteren |
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| A poetic line consisting of five verse feet |
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| A technique of plunging into the middle of a story |
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| regular patteren of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| The use of a word whose sound in some degree suggests its meaning |
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| A statement reveals a kind of truth |
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| The sequence of events or actions |
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| The point from which a narrative is told |
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| Use of a word or phrase to suggest 2 or more meanings |
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| Writing that holds up to ridicule |
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| The analysis of verse in terms under meter |
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| genereal idea about life the writer wishes to express |
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