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| A sad poem especially for someone who has died |
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| A short history with a moral. |
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| a section at the end of a book or play which comments on what has happened |
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| a piece of writting on a particular subject (an attemp to understand) |
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| Foila person or think that contrast with and so emphazis is the quality of another. |
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| the quality of having a pleasant sound |
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| is where it appeals to your emotions making you think like you need or deserve it such as; you work hard, you're beautiful, you're smart, you deserve this or that. |
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The conflict which a character has with someone else.
Examples: human vs. human; human vs society; human vs nature; human vs supernatural; human vs technology; group vs group. |
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| is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.[ |
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| is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively. Some are specified by the dead person beforehand, others chosen by those responsible for the burial. An epitaph may be in poem verse; poets have been known to compose their own epitaphs prior to their death, as W.B. Yeats did. |
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| is a generally harmless word, name, or phrase that substitutes an offensive or suggestive one.[1] Some euphemisms intend to amuse, while others intend to give positive appearances to negative events or even mislead entirely. Euphemisms also often take the place of profanity. |
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- The events of a drama after the climax (or crisis) but before the denouement (or resolution)
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images and symbols are used to give enriched meaning. For example, the phrase, "the eagle flies with the dove," isn't talking about birds, but the eagle represents America and the dove represents peace. So the phrase is figurative language about America promoting peace instead of war.
Figurative language includes hyperboles, metaphors, similes, and paradoxes.
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| Foreshadowing or adumbrating is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story. |
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is a character who does not grow in a play or movie or other literal
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| in literature and dramatic media, an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point |
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| also called a conceit, is a metaphor that continues into the sentences that follow. It is often developed at great length, occurring frequently in schools coursework or throughout a work, and are especially effective in poems and fiction. |
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is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern
Poets have explained that free verse, despite its freedom, is not free. Free Verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, for example, self-evidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense, at least in written representations, though retaining a potential degree of linkage, however nebulous, with more traditional forms. |
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| is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other media. |
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| First person point of view |
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is when a character is telling the story from his/her view.
In first person point of view, the narrator is a character in the story; the narrator uses the pronouns "I," "we," and "us."
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