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| a person or animal of the story |
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| the problem or struggle in a story that triggers the action |
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| the graphic display of the action or events in a story |
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| the vantage point trom which the story is told |
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| the time and place in which the action of a literary work occurs |
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| the statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing |
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| a literary reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event |
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| unclear in meaning or intention |
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| a comparison of two or more similar objects, suggesting that if they are alike in certain respects they will probably be alike in other ways as well |
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| using opposite ideas in the same thought or sentence to emphasize a point |
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| an over-used, worn out expression |
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| an author's choice of words based on their correctness, clearness or effectiveness |
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| a long narrative poem that tells of the deeds and adventures of a hero |
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| returning to an earlier time(in a story) for the purpose of making something in the present more clear |
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| giving hints or clues of what is to come later in a story |
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| exaggeration used to emphaszie a point |
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| using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or normal meaning |
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| putting two words or ideas close together to create a contrasting of ideas or an ironic meaning |
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| the feeling a text arouses in the reader: happiness, peacefulness, sadness, etc. |
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| a combination of contradicting terms as in jumbo shrimp or tough love |
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| a statement that seems contrary to common sense yet may in fact be true:"The coach considered this a good loss." |
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| a literary tone used to make fun of human vice or weakness often with the intent of correcting or changing the subject of attack |
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| a speech delivered by a character when he or she is alone on stage |
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| the overall feeling or effect created by a writer's use of words |
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| the repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words |
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| an unrhymed form of poetry |
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| the repetition of consonant sounds |
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| a pair of lines or verse of the same length that usually rhyme |
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| the rhyming of words that appear at the ends of two or more lines of poetry |
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| the smallest repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables on a poetic line |
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| poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme |
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| an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable; five feet |
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| the use of words to create a certain picture on the reader's mind |
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| a comparison of two unlike things in which no word of comparison is used |
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| the pattern repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables on a line of poetry |
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| the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning |
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| giving inhuman objects human characteristics |
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| the repeating of a word, a phrase or an idea for emphasis or for rhythmic effect |
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| the similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words |
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| the regular or random occurence of sound in poetry |
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| a division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains |
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| the comparison of two unike things using the words like or as |
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| a person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else |
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