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| when a character in a play says a few words or a short passsage quietly or the adience |
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| the force with whom the protagonist has a conflict |
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| the reader of a piece of literature |
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| when writing shows a very strong prejudice or point of view |
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| a poem written in unrhymed iambic pentamiter |
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| the actural time order of events in a story |
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| an overused expression that has lost its impact |
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| the point in a story where there is the most intensity or suspence |
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| a word or expression used in everyone informal lauguage |
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| a familier term that we think of as meaning funny however in literature it has a very specific meaning. a comedy is a literary work that ends happily and resloves conflict between protagonist and the antagonist in a positive way |
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| point out the similarities between two ideas or things |
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| a struggle btween two opposing forces or characters |
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| refers to all the emotions and association that you think of when you read certain words or phrases |
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| to point out the differences between two ideas or things |
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| the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression as distinguished from the ideas or meaning associated with it or suggested by it the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a lanuage as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience. compare connotation |
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| a statemnt picture in words or account that descrides descriptive representation |
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| the actual words of the character in stories |
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| the author tells us in straight forward way what the character is like |
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| literature or drama a character who undergoes a permanent change in outlook or character during the story |
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| one of the major types of writing |
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| the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved |
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| language that is not ordinary or literal but is meant to suggest more |
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| first person point of view |
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| when the author is seen as a character speaking in the first person |
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| when the author interrupts a story to and tells us what happened at an earlier time |
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| an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author |
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| character purpose to highlight something about main character |
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| when the author uses hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story |
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| a poem that dose not have a regular structure |
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| refers to the many different types of literature |
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| to picture or represent in the mind |
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| refers to words and phrases that create pictures in the readers mind |
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| language that is not clear and is used to make things more complicated than need to be |
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| limited omniscent point of view |
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| when the author tells the story in third person but from the point of view of only one character |
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| the feeling or atmosphere created by a story or poem |
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| something narred;an account,story,or narrative |
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| a poem that tells a story and presents the action in a time sequence |
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| the speaker or the one who is telling the story in a narrative poem |
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| when the author just shows us dialogue and action but dosent tell us any more about what character are thinking and feeling |
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| when the author uses third person and has access to all thoughts and actions of all characters |
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| of a stort story is the sequence of events and actions |
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| refers to who is telling the story |
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| refers to ideas spread by someone to influence other people |
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| of a narrative poem story or play is the main character or hero |
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| a phrase line or group of line repeated at intervals thoughtout a poem |
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| the act of resolveing or deteemining upon an action or course of action method procedure |
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| the repetition of sounds in words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem |
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| movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beataccent |
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| the part that is moving toward the crisis or climax |
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| a kind of irony in which the speaker says one thing and means the exact opposite |
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| a kind of writing that ridicules or makes fun of the weakness and wrong doing of individuals groups or people in general |
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| the time and place in which the story novel or narrative poem occurs |
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| language that uses new wrods or old words in a new way to describe something |
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| an old type of poem that was popular hundreds of years ago |
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| a person who speaks formally before an adience lecturer orator |
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| an arrangment of certain number of lines usually four or more sometimes is haveing a fixed length meter or rhyme scheme forming a division of a poem |
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| is the opposite of a dynamic one |
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| characters are characters or types that appear very often and that readers recognize right away |
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| the way a writer expresses himself or herself |
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| the quality of writing that makes the reader uncertain or tense about what is going to happen |
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| is something that stands for or represents something else |
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| the central idea of a story or poem |
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| is the authors attitude toward his or her subject and audience |
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| the oppisite of comedy is literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy ending |
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| when a person lessens or minimizes the importance of what is being said |
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In this kind of essay, we not only give information but also present an argument with the PROS (supporting ideas) and CONS (opposing ideas) of an argumentative issue. We should clearly take our stand and write as if we are trying to persuade an opposing audience to adopt new beliefs or behavior. The primary objective is to persuade people to change beliefs that many of them do not want to change.
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| "The emotional feelings inspired by a work. The term is borrowed from meteorology to describe the dominant mood of a selection as it is created by diction, dialogue, setting, and description. Often the opening scene in a play or novel establishes an atmosphere appropriate to the theme of the entire work |
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| a character who contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, and, in so doing, highlights various facets of the main character's personality. A foil has some important characteristics in common with the other character, such as, frequently, superficial traits or personal history. The author may use the foil to throw the character of the protagonist into sharper relief |
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| A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit. |
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| the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved |
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a piece of writing used to explain something in detail. It employs the major senses of the body to create a vivid mental image of what is being described to the reader.
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| irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play |
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| are simply essays that explain something with facts, as opposed to opinion. |
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| A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem |
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| is a struggle that occurs between a character and outside forces, which could be another character or the environment |
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| a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral ex animal farm |
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- Ten syllables in each line
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| is a mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character |
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| a long, usually serious speech that a character in a play makes to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts |
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| the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. |
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| third person point of view |
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narrator is removed from the story (he, she, they, him, her...) |
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