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| Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing |
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| 14 lines of iambic pentameter |
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| Something seen that stands for something unseen |
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| High point in a story, point of most intense |
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| Prose writing that tells about imaginary characters and events |
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| Speech delievered by a character when he is alone on stage |
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| A story that involves the reader in guessing who 'done it' |
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| An author's unique way of writing that involves word choice and sentence |
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| The sequence of events in a literary work |
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| Central truth or idea in a story |
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| An author's account or story of another person's life |
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| Short summary of a funny event |
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| A word or phrase used in place of a person's name to help characterize them |
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| The problem or complication in a story |
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| The literal, dictionary definition of a word |
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| A style of writing that uses humor to criticize people |
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| Words that describe sights, and sounds |
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| A play on words when a word has more than one meaning |
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| Highly imaginative writing that contains elements not found in real life |
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| Comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' |
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| Can know all the character's thoughts and feelings |
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| the use of words to imitate sounds |
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| A speech or performance given entirely by one person or one character |
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| Repetition of the beginning consonant sound |
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| Repetition of phrases that have similar grammatical patterns |
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| The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry |
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| Poetry that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
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| The main character in a literary work who drives the plot forward |
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| a story about a person written by that person |
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| The ordinary form of written language, not poetry, drama, or song |
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| Conversation carried on by the characters in a work of literature |
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| Prose that ecplains ideas or is about real people, places, objects or events |
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| A recurring and familiar pattern in literature, like a journey or wise old man |
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| A statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually presents a truth |
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