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| a story in which the charactes settings and events stand for abstract or moral concepts |
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| a reference to a statement person place event or thing that is known literature history religion myth politics sports science or pop culture |
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| a comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects |
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| the character or force who opposes or blocks the protagonist in a narrative |
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| a contrast of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement |
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| a concise sometimes witty saying that expresses a principle or truth about life |
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| private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or another character wjhich are not supposed to be heard by others onstage |
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| the mood or feeling in a literary work |
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| an account of a person's own life |
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| an account of a person's life as written or told by another |
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| a subdivision in a long poem correspponding to a chapter in a book |
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| a movement in art literature and music that advocates imitaing the principles manifesting in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome |
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| the point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense in the plot |
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| a faniful and elborate figure of speech that makes a suprising connection between two seemingly dissmiliar things |
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| all the meanings associations or emotions that a word suggests |
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| the literaly dictionary definition of word |
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| any artificial or contrived device used at the end of the plot to resolve or untangle complications |
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| a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost |
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| a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger than life hero emobies the value of a particular society |
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| a brief clever and usually memorable statement |
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| and adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person or place |
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| starting a story in the middle and then usining a flashback to tell what happened earlier |
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