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| A major division in a play. |
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| A narrative in which characters, settings, and events stand for abstract ideas or moral qualities. |
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| The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
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| A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an idea. |
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| An element of uncertainty in a text. |
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| A comparison made between two things to show similarities or to clarify meaning |
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| Brief account of a particular incident, used to illistrate a point. |
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| Person or force that opposes the protagonist. Can be person, or thing |
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| Something less than what is expected. |
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| Figure of speech using contrasting words, sentences, or ideas. |
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| Old, imaginative pattern that appears across cultures and repeated through the ages |
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| In drama, words spoken by a character directly to the audience not meant to be heard by onstage characters. |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonat sounds. |
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| Overall mood or tone of a work of literature. |
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| revealed through a poet's choice of details, images, and words. |
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| Poetry written in unrhymed imbic pentameter |
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| The natural rhythm of spoken language, created by arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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| Emotional release expierenced by an audience following powerful feelings evoked by tragedy. |
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| Individual who takes part in the action of a story, poem, or play. |
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| The moment of greatest emotional intensity or suspense in a plot. |
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| uses words, phrases, sentences to reflect informal conversation. |
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| In general, a story that ends happily. |
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| A comic scene or event that relieves tension in a serious play or narrative. |
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| Elaborate figure of speech that includes: metaphor, simile, hyperbole, or analogy. two types: Petrarchan and Metaphysical. |
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| Struggle or clash between two opposing characters or forces. |
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| All the meanings, associations,or emotions that have come attached to some words. |
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| Close repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after differing vowel sounds. |
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| A person, thing, statement, or situation that is in opposition to another, or one that has opposing qualities. |
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| Placement of dissimilar or opposed images, ideas, or both next to each other. |
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| Dominant image or metaphor that is sustained throughout all or part of a literary work. |
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| Two consecutive end-rhymed lines of poetry. |
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| The literal meaning of a word, without its emotional associations. |
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