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| A literary work in which persons, events, or objects represent or stand for something else. |
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| An indirect or casual reference to a famous person, event, or literary work with which the reader is assumed to be familiar. |
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| A point-by-point comparison between two dissimilar things for the purose of clarifying the less familiar. |
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| Rival or opponent of the protagonist. |
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| Prevailing mood created by setting a tone. |
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| Techniques employed by the author to develop characters. Five methods: physical description, dialogue, actions, reactions to others, and thoughts and feelings. |
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| HIghest point of intensity. Turning point of action. |
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Struggle between opposing forces. External: Man/man, man/nature,man/society
Internal:man/himself |
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| Emotional response evoked by a word. |
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| Objective dictionary definition |
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| Conversation between two or more characters |
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| Writer's choice of words. Significant component of style. |
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| Irony percieved by an audience when a character makes statements not fully understood by himself. When the reader knows info that characters do not. |
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| Sharing physical or emotional feelings by identifying with a character in literature. |
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| background info. Facts necessary to the reader placed early in the book. |
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| Two unlike objects compared at some length. |
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| A brief tale in prose or poetry that emphasizes a moral and usually has animals as the principle characters. |
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| Language not meant to be taken literally. |
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| An interruption in the narraitve flow in order to present scenes or incidents that occured priior to the beginning of the novel or short story. |
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| A character that presents a sstriking contrast to another |
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| Hints or clues of what will occur in a narrative |
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| Catagories of literary works |
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| Figure of speech characterized by exaggeration. Not to be taken literally. |
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| Words or phrases which creat vivid sensory impressions |
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| Something implied, but not stated |
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| A rhetorical device in which the author conveys a meaning just the opposite of what is said or expected |
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| A brief concise statement usually containing practical wisdom or advice. |
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| A figure of speech implying a comparison between objects of different classes or categories by saying one object is another. |
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| Feeling or atmosphere the author creates |
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| Reoccuring thematic element. |
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| Realistic fiction developed in France, US, and GB in the late 19th century. Human beings are like puppets controlled by external and interal forces. No free will. |
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| A short story told to illustrate a moral lesson, such as the "good samaritan." |
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| A statement that appears to be absurd or self-contradictory, but is true on a higher level. |
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| A humorous literary work that redicules a serous work by immitating and exaggerating its style |
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| Planned sequence of events in fiction |
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| Vantage point of the author. First person, 3rd limited, 3rd omniscient |
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| Central character; opposing antagonist |
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| Truthful imatation of actual life. Important literary movement in latter half of the 19th century |
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| Denounement. Finial unraveling of the plot |
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| A question posed which does not expect an answer |
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| Movement in the arts in the 19th century in which writers glorify nature, idealize the pasat, and celebrate human expression. Emotion rather than reasonable. |
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| Use of sarcasm or irony to ridicule. Foolish ideas are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society. |
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| Figure of speech in which one object is said to be like another |
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| Time and place. Also social and moral environment. |
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| Something which conforms to a fixed or general pattern without distinguishing qualitites. Standarizied mental picture |
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| Interious monologue. Inner thoughts recorded, but not structured |
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| One object stands for something greater |
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| Universal truth conatianed in a work. NOt just a word. |
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| Author's attitude towards his subject |
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