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Literary Terms
a list of lit terms for my exam
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English
9th Grade
06/03/2009

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allegory
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story with two or more levels of meaning
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allusion
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reference to other literary work, famous person or historical event
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anaphora
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repition of a word or group of words the same as the beginning of the sentence
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aphorism
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an adage or truth similar to a cliche
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apostrophe
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absent are spoken to as if present
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aside
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a short speech expressing thoughts
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blank verse
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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
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chiasmus
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inversion of words in the second of two parallel phrases
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coming of age novel
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the main character is a teenager, adolesence
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dialect
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speech of a small region or group of people
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diction
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word choice
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epigram
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short poem
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epiphany
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characters understanding of an experience
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epitaph
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inscription on a tomb or monument
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epithet
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analogy
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flashback
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reference to the past
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foil
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character who highlights the personality of another
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fragment
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an incomplete sentence 
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hyperbole
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outrageous exaggeration
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inversion
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constructing a sentence so the predicate comes before the subject
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metonymy
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name of one thing that is applied to another
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mood
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emotional atmosphere in a literary work
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oxymoron
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pair of opposite terms in a single expression
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paradox
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occurs when the elements of a statement contradict each other
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participle
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verbal ending that functions as an adjective
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polysyndeton
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use of many conjunctions for special emphasis
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phychological realism
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