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Accent

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the stressed portion of a word

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Allegory

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the underlying meaning of a story that may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric

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Alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are close to one another

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Allusion

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a reference to another work or famous figure assumed to be well known enough to be recognized by the reader

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Altruism

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a selfless concern for others

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Anachronism

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an event, custom, object, thing, or person that is out of order in time; they can be unintentional, humorous, or satiric

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Analogy

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a comparison of two similar but different things, usually to clarify a relationship or action

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Anaphora

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Anaphora

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Anecdote

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a short, simple narrative of an incident

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Aphorism

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a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life

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Apostrophe

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– usually in poetry, the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person to a place or thing, either to begin the poem or to make a dramatic break somewhere

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Anthropomorphism

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giving human like characteristics/qualities to animals

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Aside

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a brief comment that an actor makes to the audience (supposedly without the other actors hearing it), used for a melodramatic or comedic effect

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Assonance

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the repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants

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Background

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objects, people, or a scene in the panel that gives additional information to the story

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Ballad

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a long narrative poem that presents a single dramatic episode, which is often tragic or violent

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Folk ballad

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usually was sung and passed down orally

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Literary ballad

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art ballad, imitates the form and spirit of the folk ballad but is more polished and a higher level of poetic diction

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Blank verse

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poetry written in iambic pentameter that doesn’t rhyme

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Bleed

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in graphic novels, when an image goes to or beyond the panel

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Budings Roman

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a coming of age story

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Burlesque

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broad poetry, will take an entire style/form and exaggerate it into ridiculousness

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Cacophony

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harsh, dissonant, or awkward sounds used deliberately in poetry, opposite of euphony

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Caricature

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descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of appearance or a face or personality

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Catharsis

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the emotional release the audience experiences as a result of watching a tragedy

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Chivalric code

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the methods of training and standards of behavior for knights in the Middle Ages, emphasized: bravery, military skill, generosity in victory, piety, and courtesy to women

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Chorus

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in Greek drama, a group of characters who comment on the action taking place on stage

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Classicism

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the principles and styles admired in the classics of Greek and Roman literature, such as: objectivity, sensibility, restraint, formality

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Colloquialism

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a word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing that is sometimes inappropriate in formal writing

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Conceit

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an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly different things or situations are compared

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Consonance

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the repetition of identical consonant sounds before and after different vowel words, can also be seen in some compound words

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Conundrum

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a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun, may also be a paradox or difficult situation

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Couplet

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two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

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Description

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the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch

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Diction

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word choice, aka: syntax

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Discourse

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spoken or written language, different modes include: description, exposition, narration, and persuasion

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Dissonance

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the grating of sounds that are harsh or do not go together

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Elegy

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a formal poem focusing on death or morality, usually beginning with the recent death of a particular person

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Emanate

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in a graphic novel it is motion that infers emotion

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En media res

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when a literary work starts out in the middle of the action

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End rhyme

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a rhyme that comes at the end of lines in poetry

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Epic

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a long narrative poem about a serious or profound subject in a dignified style, usually featuring heroic characters and deeds important in legends

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Epic hero cycle

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ordinary world, call to adventure, refusal to the call, meeting mentor, crossing the threshold, tests, allies, enemies, the approach, downfall, resurrection, defeat enemies, return

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Epigram

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a concise witty saying in poetry that either stands alone or is part of a larger work, may also refer to a short poem

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Epigraph

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statement or idea at the beginning of the book

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Euphony

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succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry, opposite of cacophony

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Exemplum

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a brief tale used in medieval times to illustrate a sermon or teach a lesson

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Exposition

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the immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot

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Farce

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a light dramatic composition characterized by a broad satirical comedy and a highly improbable plot

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Figurative language

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language that contains figures of speech such as similes and metaphors in order to create associations that are imaginative rather than literal, contains figures of speech

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Figures of speech

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expressions such as similes, metaphors, and personifications that make imaginative rather than literal associations or comparisons

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Foil

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a character who highlights the characteristics of another character

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Folklore

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traditional stories, songs, dances, and customs that are preserved among people, usually precedes literature – passed down orally

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Foot

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the combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up the basic rhythmic unit

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Anapest

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two unstressed then one stressed

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Dactyl

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one stressed then two unstressed

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Iamb

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one unstressed then one stressed

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Spondee

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two stressed

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Trochee

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one stressed then one unstressed

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Foreground

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in a graphic novel it is the image that is nearest to the observer

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Foreshadowing

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the use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs later in the work of literature

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Free verse

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poetry that is written without a regular meter, usually without rhyme

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Genre

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a type of literary work such as a novel or poem

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Gothic

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referring to a type of novel that emerged in the 18th century that uses mystery, suspense, and sensational and supernatural occurrences to evoke terror

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Graphic weight

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in graphic novels it is a term used to discuss the amount of contrast in an image

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Hubris

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the excessive pride or ambition that leads a hero to their downfall

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Humor

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anything that causes laughter or amusement

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Hyperbole

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deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis

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Iambic pentameter

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ten lines of stressed unstressed feet

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Idyll

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a short descriptive narrative, usually a poem about an idealized country life, also called a pastoral

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Imagery

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words or phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture

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Interior monologue

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writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a characters head

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Internal rhyme

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a rhyme occurring within a line of poetry

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Inversion

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revising the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase, used effectively in many cases such as posing a question, often used ineffectively in poetry making it look artificial and stilled

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Irony

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a situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what is expected

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Loose sentence

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a sentence that is grammatically complete before its end

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Lyric

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a type of melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually short and personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, without using like or as

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Meter

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the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry

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Monometer

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one foot

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Demeter

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two feet

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Trimester

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three feet

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Tetrameter

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four feet

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Pentameter

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five feet

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Hexameter

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six feet

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Heptameter

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seven feet

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associates

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Misogyny

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hating women

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Mode

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the method or form of a literary work, the way a work of literature is written

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Mood

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similar to tone, mood is the primary emotional attitude of a work

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Myth

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one story in a system of narratives set in a complete imaginary work that once served to explain the origin of life, religious beliefs, and the forces of nature as supernatural occurrences

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Narration

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the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama, one of four modes of discourse

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Naturalism

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literary movement that grew out of realism in France, the US, and England, it portrays humans as having no free will, being driven by the natural forces of heredity, environment, and animalist urges over which they have no contro

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Objectivity

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an impersonal presentation of events and characters

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Ode

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a long lyric poem usually serious and elevated in tone, often written to praise someone or something

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Onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech composed of contradictory words and phrases

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Panel

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the framed images, where the images lay, not necessarily with a frame

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Parable

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a short tale that teaches a moral

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Paradox

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a statement that seems to contradict itself but that turns out to have a rational meaning

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Parallelism

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the technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side to side and making them similar in form

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Parody

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a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements

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Pastoral

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a poem about idealized rural life, or shepherds, or both, also called an idyll

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Periodic sentence

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a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its last phrase

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Personification

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giving human like characteristics to nonhuman or inanimate objects

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Persuasion

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one of the four modes of discourse, language intended to convince through appeals to reason or emotion

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Petrarchan sonnet

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one of the most important types of sonnets, composed of an octave with an abba abba rhyme scheme, and ending in a sestet with a cde cde rhyme scheme, also called and Italian sonnet

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Point of view

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the perspective from which a story is presented

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First person

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a narrator, told though a character point of view

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Stream of consciousness

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like a first person, not inside the persons mind, just watching

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Omniscient narrator

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a third person narrator, able to see into every characters mind and understand the action

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Limited omniscient

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third person narrator who only reports the thoughts of one character, and generally only what the character sees

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Objective narrator

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third person narrator who only reports what a camera would view, thoughts and feelings are only revealed if the characters say it out loud

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Protagonist

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the main character of a literary work

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Quixotic

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a genre of literature, a type of philosophy where everything is nostalgic and romantic

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Realism

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nineteenth-century literary movement in Europe and the US that stressed accuracy in the portrayal of life, focusing on characters with whom middle-class readers could easily relate with, in direct contrast with romanticism

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Refrain

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a line or group of lines that are periodically repeated throughout a poem

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Regionalism

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an element in literature that conveys a realistic portrayal of a specific geographical locale, using the locale and its influences as a major part of the plot

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Rhyme

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a similarity of accented sounds between two words

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Masculine

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the rhyme sound is the last syllable of a line

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Feminine

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the accented syllable is followed by an unaccented syllable

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Romanticism

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a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement that began in the 18th century as a reaction against neoclassism, main focal points include imagination, emotion, and freedom, stressing subjectivity, individuality, the love/worship of nature, and a fascination with the past

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Sarcasm

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harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone, less subtle than irony

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Shakespearian sonnet

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the sonnet form used by Shakespeare, composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg, also called Elizabethan sonnet, English sonnet

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Simile

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a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities

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Soliloquy

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a speech spoken by a character alone on stage, giving the impression that the audience is listening to the characters thoughts

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Sonnet

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a 14 lyric poem in iambic pentameter

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Speaker

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the voice of a poem, an author may speak as themselves or as a fictitious character

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Stanza

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a group of lines in the formal pattern of a poem

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Couplet

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the simple stanza, consisting of two rhymed lines

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Tercet

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three lines, usually having the same rhyme

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Quatrain

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four lines

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Cinquain

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five lines

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Sestet

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six lines

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Stereotype

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a character who represents a trait that is usually attributed to a particular social or racial group and lacks individuality

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Stock character

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a standard character who may be stereotyped, such as the miser or the fool, or universally recognized, like the hard-boiled private eye

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Style

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an author’s characteristic manner of expression

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Subjectivity

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a personal presentation of events and characters, influenced by the author’s feelings and opinions

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Suspension of disbelief

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the demand made of a theater audience to provide some details with their imagination and to accept the limitations of reality and staging, also the acceptance of the incidents pf the plot by a reader or audience

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Symbolism

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the use of symbols or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as representative of a higher and more complex significance

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using “boards” to mean “a stage” or “wheels” to mean “car”

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Synesthesia

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mixing of senses, like “taste the rainbow”

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Syntax

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word choice or diction

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Theme

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the central idea or message of a literary work

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Tone

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the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience

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Tragic flaw

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the one weakness that causes the downfall of the hero in a tragedy

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Villanelle

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a lyric poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain

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Voice

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the way a written work conveys and author’s attitude

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