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Prose
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Term in literature not refering to poetry, all forms of literature that are not poetry
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Satire
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Not a genre of literature, but a mode

manifests action of authorial attitude and purpose

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Novel
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Extened fictional prose narrative
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Novel modes
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Realism, romanticism, impressionism, expressionism, naturalism, neo-classicism
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Parts of poetry
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Intro, exposition, complication, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement, conclusion
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theme of narrative answers....
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the why question
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Plot of narrative answers....
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the what question
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protaganist
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Struggles toward or for someone or something
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antagonists
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struggles against someone or something
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stock character
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Actor axist becasue tyhe plot demands it, the extras in the narrative, a bar needs other people than the bar tender and the actor
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Stereotype
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Character without individuyality to the plot

a football player, just a general type

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Foil character
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Enables us to see the other character better

Tom Sawyer is an example of a foil for Huck Finn

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Allegorical character
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Standing for qualities or concepts rather than an actual person
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Motifs
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Help unify work repeated throughout the story
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Setting answers the ....
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When question
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Style answers.....
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The How question
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Point of view
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Authors perspective on character, giving an onjective view
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Types of essays
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Speculative, Argumentative, narrative, expository
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Speculative
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Explores ideas rather than explain
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argumentative
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present a point and provide evidence for that point
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narrative
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recount an incident or series of incidents
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expository
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explain and clarify ideas
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elements of an essay
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voice, style, structure, thought
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Sattire
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mode employed by writers of varies genres
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verse in poetry
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line in poetry
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stanza in poetry
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group of lines with metrical order
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rhyme scheme
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stanzas with repeated rhyme
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Internal rhyme
Definition
at least 1 rhyme within the line
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slant rhyme
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expecting perfect rhyme and getting only 1/2 rhyme

 

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blank verse
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unrhymed with strict rythm
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Meter
Definition
pattern or measures of stressed or accented words within a line of verse
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iambic rythm
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rising and falling stresses
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Iambic meter
Definition
stressed and unstressed syllables
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Iambic Pentameter
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line with 10 syllables, 5 groups of 2 syllables

best used by shakespere

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Foot
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Basic measuring unit in line of poetry
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iambic foot
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 1 unstressed syllable followed by stressed marked by a (u)
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Accented meter
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4 stresses without attention to the unstressed, used in old english poetry
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Similie
Definition
comparrision of 2 unlike things using like or as
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Metaphor
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comparrision of 2 unlike things not using like or as
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Alliteration
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Repition of consanants at the beginning of words thata re next to each other or close by

 

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Assonance
Definition
Repition of vowel sounds internally rather than intially
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Bathos
Definition
Delibrate anticlimax to make a definate point or draw attention to falseness
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conciets
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Delibrate comparrison between unlike objects
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consonance
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Repitition of consanant sound without vowel sound repeated
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enjambment
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running on of one line of poetry into another
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hyperbole
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obvious and intentional exaggeration
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irony
Definition
discrency between what is said and what is meant
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metonymy
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term used to stand or evoke a related idea

the pen is mightier than the sword

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form  of peotry
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pattern or design of a poem
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Sonnet
Definition

fixed form always with 14 lines little song

used by shakespere

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Couplets
Definition

2 line stanza the rhymes with the end line

couplet written in iambic pentameter is known as heroic couplet

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Ballards
Definition

4 lines rhyming abcb

lines 1 and 3 with 8 syllables and 2 and 4 having 6 syllables

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Mimesis in drama
Definition
Imitation 
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Though often considered a work for children, this 19th century classic continues to  amuze adults and children with puzzles and hidden meanings

A. Cat in the Hat

B. Lord of the rings

C. Alice in wonderland

D. Gullivers travels

 

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C. Alice in wonderland
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Which of the following presents a series of entertaining monolouges and bawdy tales told by individuals with a common purpose

A. Canterbury tales

B. Martian chronicles

C. Tales of the twilight zone

D. Complete works of Poe

Definition
A. Canterbury tales
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