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| the time and place where the action in a literary work |
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| a stated comparison between two unlike things using words "like" or "as" |
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| long speech expressing thoughts of a character who is alone on stage |
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| a lyric poem of 14 lines commonly written in iambic pentameter |
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| words used for their sounds effect that can convey meaning or mood or unity a work (ex: alliteration, onomatopeia, repetition, rhyme) |
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| In poetry the speaker is the voice that "talks" to the reader, similar to narrator in fiction |
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| directions in a play that explain how a character should look, speak, move, or behave |
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| Standard American English |
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| the version of the English Language that is regarded as the model in America for writers and speakers |
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| a group of lines forming a unit in a poem or song, similar to a paragraph in prose |
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| one who remains the same throughout the story |
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