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autobiography
a biography writen to tell a persons life story.
memior
a record of memories, and particular events that have taken place in the authors life.
cumulative sentence
a sentence that starts with a loose sentence with an independent clause, proves main idea and adds subordinate elements or modifies.
blank verse
un-chyming verse written in Lamb pen-tamer. in poetry and prose it has a consent meter with 10 syllables in each live.
buildingsroman
story of growing up a sensitive person who looks for answers to his questions through different experiences.
buildings roman
protagonist gains maturity gradually and with difficulty.
illusion
comparing things to the bible
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foil
a character that shows qualites that compare to another character. (contrasting characters)
intertextuality
a sophisticated literary device used in writing. in fact, its a textual reference within some text that reflects the text used as a reference. draws upon the concept, rhetoric or ideology from other text to be merged in the new text.
litotes
diverted from a greek word meanning “simple’’ a figure of speech using a double negative or in other words a positive statement is expressed by negating it’s opposite expressions. “not too bad”
utopia
the idea of a “perfect society” deal conditions achieved within the martial world as opposed of the idealism of afterlife in Christianity.
sonnet
the word sonnet is diverted from italian word. “sonneto” had 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter. each ine has 10 syllables.
round character
novel, play or story is a complex personality.like people, he/she has depth inn is feelings and passions. for instance, in the movie “shrek”
situatoal Irony
occurs when incongruity appeals between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. different from what audience may expect.