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Mrs. Stafford - Hamilton High
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English
12th Grade
07/27/2012

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Allegory
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a story in which the charactes settings and events stand for abstract or moral concepts
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allusion
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a reference to a statement person place event or thing that is known literature history religion myth politics sports science or pop culture
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analogy
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a comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects
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Antagonist
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the character or force who opposes or blocks the protagonist in a narrative
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Antithesis
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a contrast of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement 
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Aphorism
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a concise sometimes witty saying that expresses a principle or truth about life
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Aside
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private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or another character wjhich are not supposed to be heard by others onstage
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Atmostphere
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the mood or feeling in a literary work
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Autobiography
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an account of a person's own life
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Biography
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an account of a person's life as written or told by another
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Canto
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a subdivision in a long poem correspponding to a chapter in a book
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Classicism
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a movement in art literature and music that advocates imitaing the principles manifesting in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome
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Climax
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the point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense in the plot
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Conciet
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a faniful and elborate figure of speech that makes a suprising connection between two seemingly dissmiliar things
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Connotations
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all the meanings associations or emotions that a word suggests
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Denotation
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the literaly dictionary definition of word
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Deus Ex Machina
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any artificial or contrived device used at the end of the plot to resolve or untangle complications
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Elegy
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a poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost
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Epic
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a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger than life hero emobies the value of a particular society 
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Epigram
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a brief clever and usually memorable statement
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Epithet
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and adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person or place
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In Media Res
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starting a story in the middle and then usining a flashback to tell what happened earlier
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