Literature terms
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| Alliteration | show 🗑
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| show | patterning of vowel sounds without regard to consonants
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | The basic meaning of a word, independant of its emotional coloration or associations
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| Epic | show 🗑
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| an intuitive flash grasp of reality achieved in a quick flash of recognition in which something, usually simple and commonplace, is seen in a new light. | show 🗑
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| Genre | show 🗑
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| show | Genre classification
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| show | A brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating a single, unified expression.
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| show | A composition giving the discourse of one speaker; Represents what someone would speak aloud in a situation with listeners, although they do not speak
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| Motivation | show 🗑
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| Motif | show 🗑
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| show | Motivation
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| Narrative | show 🗑
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| show | a mask. Widely used to refer to a "second self" created by an author and through whom the narrative is told
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| show | Persona
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| Setting | show 🗑
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| The geographical location, its topography, scenery and such physical arrangements as the location of the windows and doors in a room | show 🗑
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| Novel | show 🗑
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| show | Element of a setting
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| Fiction | show 🗑
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| the general environment of the characters, for example, religious, mental, moral, social and emotional conditions | show 🗑
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| Nonfiction | show 🗑
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| show | A novel that recounts the youth and young adulthood of a sensitive protagonist who is attempting to learn the nature of the world, discover its meaning and pattern, and acquire a philosophy of life and "the art of living."
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| Epistolary Novel | show 🗑
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| show | A tale or short story.
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| Subplot | show 🗑
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| Exposition | show 🗑
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| show | The presentation of material in a work in such a way that later events are prepared for; can result from the establishment of a mood or atmosphere.
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| show | The struggle that grows out of the interplay of two opposing forces; provides interest, suspense and tension
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| show | A plot in which the principle REVERSAL or PERIPETY results from someone's acquisition of knowledge previously withheld but which, now know, works a decisive change.
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| show | Recognition plot
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| show | The part of a dramatic plot that has to do with the complication of the action. It begins with the exiciting force, gains in interest and power as the opposing groups come into conflict and proceeds to climax
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| show | The point at which the decisive action on which a plot willopposing forces that create the conflict interlock in the turn.
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| Climax | show 🗑
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| Falling Action | show 🗑
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| show | Literally,"unknotting." The final unraveling of a plot; the solution of a mystery; an explanation or outcome.
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| Protagonist | show 🗑
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| show | Man vs Man; Man vs. Nature; Man vs. Self; Man vs. Society
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| show | The character directly opposed to the protagonist. A rival, opponent, or enemy of the protagonist
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| Hero | show 🗑
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| Antihero | show 🗑
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| show | Literally, a "leaf" of bright metal placed under a jewel to increase its brilliance. In literature the term is applied to any person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another.
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| Stock Character | show 🗑
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| Flat Character | show 🗑
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| Round Character | show 🗑
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| Verbal Irony | show 🗑
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| show | Intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words; It embodies one or more figures of speech
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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| show | Implies something conceived in the mind; the term designates fanciful motion, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy and pointing to a striking parallel between ostensibly dissimilar things
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| Hyperbole | show 🗑
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| show | An analogy identifying one object with another and ascribing to the first object one or more qualities of the second.
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| show | The substitution of the name of an object closely associated with a word for the word itself. Ex: refering to the Monarch as the "crown", an object closely associated with royalty being made to stand for it
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| show | A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true; it teases the mind and tests the limits of language.
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| Personification | show 🗑
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| Simile | show 🗑
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| Synecdoche | show 🗑
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| show | An adjective used to limit a noun that it really does not logically modify.
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| Diction | show 🗑
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| show | The attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. May be: formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitude. Attitude of the author toward the audience
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| Mood | show 🗑
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| show | the use of one object to represent or suggest another; or in literature, the serious and extensive use of symbols.
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside of the narrative itself; it represents one thing in the guise of another-an abstractionin that of a concrete image
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| show | a figure of speech that makes brief reference to a historical or literary figure, event or object
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| Aside | show 🗑
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| Convention | show 🗑
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| show | The employment of some unexpected and impropable incident to make things turn out right
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| In media res | show 🗑
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| Satire | show 🗑
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| Soliloquy | show 🗑
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| show | A poem almost invariably of fourteen lines and following one of several set rhyme schemes
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| show | distinguished by its division into the octave asn sestet: The octave rhyming "abbaabba". The octave presents a narrative, states a proposition, or raises a question; the sestet drives home the narrative by making an abstract comment.
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| English or Shakespearean Sonnet | show 🗑
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