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The repeating soiunds of a word.
"Hit with the Blind Bow Boy's Butt shaft" |
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Allegory
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>A story that is compiled of metaphores and other figuritive languages.
> The lord of the flies(conch, fire,glasses) |
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Climax
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the point of greatest tension in a book -- the point in a book at which the mood changes
>The final battle in "the Final storm
Romeo and Juliet - - - killing of Mercutio and Tybalt |
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Dramatic Irony
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When the audience knows something that some or all of the characters in a story don't know
When Tybalt is mad at Romeo but he does not know that they are now related(marraige)
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Resolution
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The ending of a story -- "the wrap up"
the last line of the most dangerous game -
"I decided it was the best sleep i had ever gotten"(or something alongs those lines)
> All text have resolutions - The most Dangerous game |
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Exposition
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the beggining of a story - before the inciting action
Once upon a time....
All stories have an exposition - the most dangerous game |
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Falling action
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the part of the story after the climax as it releases tension(usually)
> After the fight there still remained the problem of getting the ancient artifact...
Most stories have falling action-the most dangerous game |
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Figuritive Language
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speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning.
Metaphores, Simales, Personification |
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Foreshadowing
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A line or passage in a story that relates to an event that happens in the future - usually malign
I fear something bad will happen starting with the events that happen tonight - (human translation of Romeo's line)
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Written text that is so descriptive it puts a "picture" in your mind
the ball is round like rudolph's nose - its the same color too. It is small - about 2 inches in diameter and in slightly porous and squishy |
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Irony
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an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
In the movie "Holes" - "this is not a girl scout cookie factory!" (becomes a girl scout cookie factory)
> Romeo and Juliet
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Figuritive Language that says something that doesn't use 'like' or 'as'
The house was a fotress, impentrable and... |
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the meter is how the flow is set up in the writting (iambic pentameter)
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Monologue
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a part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone; soliloquy
Juliets monologue about Romeo after he kills Tybalt
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an adjictive and a noun or two adjectives that contradict each other.
loving hate, cold firefreshman, priviledge |
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The use of imagery making an inanimate object have human/life-like properties
the leaf skipped down the driveway. |
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