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| DEF: a representation of an abtract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. EX: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" |
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| DEF: two or more words with the same first letter/sound |
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DEF: any light, simple song, esp. one of sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sung to the same melody.
EX: Ballad of Ira Hayes |
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DEF: a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
EX: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
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DEF: an artistic composition, esp. literary or dramatic, that, for the sake of laughter, vulgarized lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity.
EX: early Greece - "The Battle of Frogs and Mice" |
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DEF: a break, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by double vertical lines.
EX: know then thyself || pressume not God to scan. |
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DEF: a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.
EX: He went to the country, to the town went she. |
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| DEF: the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel. EX: the final scene of Shakespeare's comedy "As You Like It" |
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| DEF: a plot device in which a person or thing appears "out of the blue" to help a character to overcome a seemingly insolvable difficulty. EX: fairy godmother in Cinderella |
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| DEF: a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem |
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| DEF: the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause. |
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| DEF: any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed. EX: "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus |
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| DEF: a brief motto or quotation at the beginning of a text. EX: "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." - Charles Lamb (epigraph to "To Kill a Mockingbird" be Harper Lee) |
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| DEF: a concluding part added to a literary work, such as a novel. EX: final chapter of the seventh "Harry Potter" book. |
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| DEF: a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. EX: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
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| DEF: a book written as a series of letters. EX: "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker |
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| DEF: a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person. |
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| DEF: any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality. EX: "Richard the Lion-Hearted" is an epithet of Richard I. |
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| DEF: any system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters, as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc. EX: "The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism." |
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| DEF: critical explanation or interpretation of a text or portion of a text, esp. of the Bible. EX: "A Converging Path: Philippians 2:5-11" |
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| DEF: a comic, often anonymous tale written by jongleurs in northeast France in the 12th and 13th centuries. EX: "Cantebury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. |
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| DEF: analogy to similar concepts of contexts, and may involve exaggeration. EX: The Ground is thirsty. |
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| DEF: "the end of a century." Encompasses both the closing and onset of an era. EX: in Russia, the "Silver Age." |
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| DEF: an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. EX: the pensieve in Harry Potter. |
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| DEF: a person that contrasts with another character in order to highlight various features of the main character's personality. EX: Sherlock and Watson. |
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| DEF: traditions of a culture. It is also the set of practices of the group. EX: "Bless Me, Ultima." |
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| DEF: in verse, many meters use a foot as the basic unit in their description of the underlying rhythm of a poem. EX: iambic. |
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| DEF: provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later in the story. EX: mystery novels. |
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| DEF: free iambic; cadenced; free verse. EX: T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman. |
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| DEF: loose set of criteria for a category of composition. EX: historical; romance; adventure; science fiction. |
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