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| allegory | show 🗑
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| alliteration | show 🗑
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| allusion | show 🗑
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| analogy | show 🗑
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| anaphora | show 🗑
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| show | Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual
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| show | Opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist in the story
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| show | In literature, an archetype is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature.
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| show | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together
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| indirect characterization | show 🗑
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| direct characterization | show 🗑
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| static character | show 🗑
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| dynamic character | show 🗑
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| cliche | show 🗑
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| comedy | show 🗑
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| show | the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition.
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| denotation | show 🗑
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| show | two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry
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| dialect | show 🗑
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| show | a speaker or writer’s choice of words
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| show | a long narrative poem, written in heightened language , which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society
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| epithet | show 🗑
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| essay | show 🗑
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| show | a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.
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| farce | show 🗑
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| show | Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe
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| show | a scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time
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| show | A character who acts as contrast to another character
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| show | the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.
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| free verse | show 🗑
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| hyperbole | show 🗑
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| imagery | show 🗑
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| show | occurs when someone says one thing but really means something else.
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| situational irony | show 🗑
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| dramatic irony | show 🗑
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| show | rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit
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| show | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker.
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| show | a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the
use of such specific words of comparison as like, as, than, or resembles
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| mood | show 🗑
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| show | recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation used throughout a work (or in several works by one author), unifying the work by tying the current situation to previous ones, or new ideas to the theme
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| motivation | show 🗑
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| show | the use of words whose sounds echo their sense. “Pop.” “Zap.”
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| oxymoron | show 🗑
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| show | a relatively short story that teaches a moral, or lesson about how to lead a good life
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| paradox | show 🗑
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| parallel structure | show 🗑
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| show | a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer’s style
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| personification | show 🗑
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| show | one of the characters tells the story
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| show | an omniscient or all knowing narrator tells the story, also using the third person pronouns. This narrator, instead of focusing on one character only, often tells us everything about many characters.
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| show | a narrator who is totally impersonal and objective tells the story, with no comment on any characters or events.
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| quatrain | show 🗑
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| refrain | show 🗑
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| show | Art of effective communication, especially persuasive discourse
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| show | a question asked for an effect, and not actually requiring an answer
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| show | a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change.
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| show | a figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as , than, or resembles.
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| soliloquy | show 🗑
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| style | show 🗑
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| show | a feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story
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| show | a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself.
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| show | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work
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| show | the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization
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| show | in general, a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end.
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| show | a statement that says less than what is meant.
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| show | refers to elements in a literary work designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused, i.e., the term is used synonymously with humor
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