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| show | A narrative verse or prose in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas.
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| show | A direct address to someone or something.
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| Connotation | show 🗑
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| show | The literal, dictionary meaning of a word.
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| show | Word choice or vocabulary.
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| Tone | show 🗑
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| show | A moment of insight, discovery or revelation.
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| show | A scene relived in character's memory.
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| Hyberbole (Overstatement) | show 🗑
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| Imagery | show 🗑
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| show | "In the midst of things" Refers to a narrative device of beginning a story midway in the events it depicts (usually at an exciting moment) before explaining the context.
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| show | A literary device in which a discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language.
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| show | Figure of speech in which the name of a thing is substituted for that another closely associated with it. (ex: The White House decided vs. The President decided)
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| show | One of the four types of poetry. And a voice or character that provides the reader with information and insight about the characters.
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| show | "Mask" A fictitious character created by an author to be the speaker of a poem, story, or novel. It is always a narrator of the work and not a character in it.
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| show | The time and place of a literary work.
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| Style | show 🗑
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| show | An extended work of fictional prose narrative. (book length)
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| Epistolary Novel | show 🗑
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| Nonfiction Novel | show 🗑
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| Apprenticeship Novel | show 🗑
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| show | The narrator of this novel presents the life of a likable scoundrel who is at odds with society. Usually recounts adventures tricking the rich and gullible.
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| show | A prose narrative longer than a short story, but shorter than a novel.
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| Epic Novel | show 🗑
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| show | A brief narrative told to illustrate a moral.
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| show | A brief, usually allegorical narrative that teaches a moral. The moral theme can be interpreted in many ways. (ex: The Prodical Son)
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| Tale | show 🗑
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| show | Events are not real.
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| Short Story | show 🗑
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| Subplot (Double Plot) | show 🗑
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| Synecdoche | show 🗑
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| show | The attitude towards a subject.
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| Free verse | show 🗑
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| show | Poetic language printed in prose paragraphs, but displaying the careful attention to sound, imagery and figurative language.
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| Visual Poetry | show 🗑
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| Monometer | show 🗑
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| show | A verse containing two metrical feet.
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| Trimeter | show 🗑
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| Tetrameter | show 🗑
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| Pentameter | show 🗑
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| Hexameter | show 🗑
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| show | Seven metrical feet
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| Octameter | show 🗑
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| Nonameter | show 🗑
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| Decameter | show 🗑
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| Form | show 🗑
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| Blank Verse | show 🗑
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| show | Describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter.
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| Haiku | show 🗑
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| show | A short, usually comical verse of 5 anapestic lines usually rhyming aabba. (3,3,2,2,3)
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| show | A very short poem usually ending with some sharp turn of wit or meaning.
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| Triolet | show 🗑
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| show | A metrical foot of verse in which one stressed syllable is followed by two unstressed syllables.
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| Exact Rhyme | show 🗑
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| Slant Rhyme | show 🗑
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| show | Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines, rather than within them.
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| show | A sonnet with the following rhyme pattern: abba, abba for the first eight lines (the octave), the final six lines(the sestet) may follow any pattern
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| show | Has a rhyme scheme organized into 3 quatrains with the final couplet: abab,cdcd,efef,gg.
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| show | "stopping place" A recurring pattern of 2 or more lines of verse.
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| Couplet | show 🗑
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| Tercet | show 🗑
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| Quatrain | show 🗑
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| show | A poem or stanza of 6 lines.
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| Octave | show 🗑
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| show | The most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist in a narrative or drama.
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| Apostrophe | show 🗑
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| Aside | show 🗑
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| show | The techniques a writer uses to create, reveal, and develop the characters.
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| show | A paraphrasable message or lesson implied or directly stated in a literary work.
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| Motivation | show 🗑
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| Protagonist | show 🗑
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| show | In drama, a division of the action in an act of the play.
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| show | A common or stereotypical character that occurs frequently in literature (ex: a mad scientist)
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| Understatement | show 🗑
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| show | A literary work aimed at amusing an audience.
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| Burlesque | show 🗑
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| Comedy of Manners | show 🗑
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| show | A form of comic drama developed by guilds of professional Italian actors in the mid 16th century.
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| show | A type of comedy featuring exaggerated character types in ludicrous and improbably situations.
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| show | A comic genre evoking laughter from an audience. No intellectual appeal
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| show | A comic style using slapstick jokes. Has intellectual appeal.
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| Romantic Comedy | show 🗑
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| show | A kind of farce comedy involving pie throwing or other violent action
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| Satire | show 🗑
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| show | The representation of serious and important actions that lead to a disastrous end for the protagonist.
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| Tragicomedy | show 🗑
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| Melodrama | show 🗑
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