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| a story which concerns an unreal world or which contains unreal characters; it may be merely whimsical, or it may present a serious point |
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| language employing one or more figures of speech (simile, metaphor, imagery, etc...) |
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| the insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative |
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| a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story |
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| the presentationof material in such a way that the reader is prepared for what is to come later in the work |
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| a story within a story, such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which the primary stories are told within the framework of the pilgrimage to Canterbury |
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| a major category or type of literature |
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| a sermon, or a moralistic lecture |
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| excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy |
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| intentional exaggeration to create an effect |
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| a question that raises a hypothesis or conjecture |
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| an expression in a given language that cannot be understood from the meaning of its individual elements; or, a regional speech or dialect |
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| the use of figures of speech to create vivid images |
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| deriving general principles from particular facts or instances |
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| a conclusion one draws (infers) based on premises or evidence |
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| an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack |
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| the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs |
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| the specialized language or vocabulary of a particular group or profession |
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| placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast |
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| a narrative handed down from the past which contains historical elements and usually supernatural elements |
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| light verse consisting of five lines of regular rhythm and in which the first, second, and fifth lines (each consisting of 3 feet) rhyme, and the second and third lines (each consisting of 2 feet) rhyme |
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| a narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character and restricts information to what is seen, heard, thought, or felt by that one character |
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| deviating from normal rules or methods in order to achieve a certain effect |
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