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The primary assertion the literary work makes about the topic it explores; the primary or informing idea of the work

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Theme

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The subject or issue explored in a literary work

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Topic

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The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings.

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Assonance

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The range of secondary or associated significances and feelings that a word commonly suggests or implies.

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Connotation

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A strong pause or break within a line of poetry.

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Caesura

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A poem, often a narrative, that consists of quatrains in which the first and third lines are unrhymed iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth are rhymed iambic trimeter.

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Ballad

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A one-dimensional character who usually stands for a single trait or value.

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Flat character

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A secondary assertion the literary work makes about the topic it explores.

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Sub-theme

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A character who has many dimensions and is a complex, “real life” person.

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Round character

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The historical person who actually writes the text.

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Author

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The time, place, and natural and/or social conditions of a story, poem, or play.

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Setting

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Two successive syllables with approximately equally strong stresses.

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Spondaic (noun is “spondee”)

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A metrical line of five feet.

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Pentameter

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A hint or clue about what will happen later in a plot.

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Foreshadowing

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The attitude a literary work toward its subject (especially as revealed through diction and the denotations and connotations of the words).

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Tone

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Verse that is not organized into metrical feet or regular line lengths and does not rhyme.

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Free verse

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A narrator who knows everything about the story, including the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

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Omniscient narrator

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A fixed poetic form of fourteen rhyming iambic pentameter lines that originated in Italy and France in the Middle Ages and dominated English poetry in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Sonnet

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A character who occurs repeatedly in a literary genre and is recognized as a staple of the genre.

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Stock character

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A character who grows or otherwise changes in a significant way.

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Changing character

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A character who serves as a contrast to another character.

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Foil

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An implicit comparison or similarity between a literal object or action and a different kind of thing or action. The words “like” or “as” are not used.

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Metaphor

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The perspective from which a story is told.

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Point of view

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A character in the story who also tells the story.

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First-person narrator

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A way to emphasize a word or idea.

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Repetition

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A means of using words in a passage to establish a character trait, tone, or meaning.

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Words with reinforcing denotations and connotations.

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An explicit comparison between two distinctly different actions or things, indicated by the word “like” or “as”.

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Simile

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A passing reference, without explicit identification, to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another literary work or passage.

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Allusion

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A natural or physical thing/entity that stands for an intangible psychological, moral, political, or spiritual value or truth.

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Symbol

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A metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.

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Iambic (noun is “iamb”)

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The author who is inferred based solely on evidence in the work.

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Implied author

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The repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words or of stressed syllables in the same line or sentence.

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Alliteration

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A person presented in a literary work.

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Character

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Central or important characters.

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Major characters

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Less important characters

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Minor characters.

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(hero/ine) the chief or main character or a work. In some works, pitted against an opponent.

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Protagonist

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The character that actively opposes or is an adversary to a main/chief character

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Antagonist

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The presentation of abstract ideas through more concrete means. Typically, a narrative.

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Allegory

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The events in a story are told by someone outside the story or a narrator who refers to the characters by name or “he”, “she”, or “they

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Third-person point of view

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In this narrative, the story-teller refers to him/herself by the pronoun “I” and is a character in the story

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First-person point of view

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limits him/herself to what is experienced, thought, or felt by a single character within the story. Author tells the story in the third person, but filters the events through the consciousness of a character.

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Limited third-person narrator

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this narrator is either a first or a third-person narrator. He or she makes an interpretation or assessment of the matters of the story which conflicts with or diverges from the implicit opinion and norms manifested by the author, which the author expects the reader to share.

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Fallible or unreliable narrator

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repetition of the last stressed vowel and of all the speech sounds following that vowel (late, fate, follow, hollow)

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Rhyme

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used most frequently, occurs at the end of a verse line

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End rhyme

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occurs within a verse line

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Internal rhyme

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rhyme that consists of a single stressed syllable; car, far; tree, hee

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Masculine rhyme

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a rhyme that consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable; lightly, slightly; mellow, fellow

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Feminine rhyme, aka: double rhyme

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the correspondence of sounds is exact. End, Internal, Masculine and Feminine are all examples of this

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Perfect rhyme (full or true rhyme)

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the vowel sounds are only approximate (and sometimes the consonant sounds are similar rather than identical). (loads, lids, lads; groaned, crooned, ground)

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Imperfect rhyme (partial, near or slant rhyme)

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involves the use of literary devices to achieve some special meaning or effect. The two most important and common forms of this are similes and metaphors.

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Figurative language

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sometimes refers to all the objects of sense perception in a poem regardless of whether literal or figurative; sometimes refers only to descriptions of visual objects and scenes. Frequently, critics use the term as a synonym for figurative language.

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Imagery

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the continuation of the sense and grammatic structure of one line of poetry to the next line or enjambment.

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Run-on line

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having a pause at the end of each line

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End-stopped line

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a pattern of approximately equivalent units of accentuated stress in written or spoken English. Compositions written this way are known as verse. The type is determined by the pattern of the stronger and weaker stresses.

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Meter

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the combination of a strong stress and the associated weak stress or stresses which make up the recurrent metric unit of a line

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(A) foot

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two light syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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Anapestic (noun is “anapest”)

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a stressed followed by a light syllable

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Trochaic (noun is “trochee”)

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a stressed syllable followed by two light syllables

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Dactylic (noun is “dactyl”)

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two successive syllables of approximately equally light stress.

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Pyrrhic (noun is “Pyrrhic”)

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named according to he number of feet in them.

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Metric lines

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monometer

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one foot

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dimeter

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two feet

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trimeter

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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 (or an Alexandrine)

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heptameter

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seven feet (or fourteener)

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octameter

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eight feet

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a term applied to rhythmical and most frequently, metrical and rhymed composition. Also known as a unit of poetry, such as a stanza or a line.

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Verse

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consists of iambic pentameter lines (five-stress iambic verse) which are unrhymed or “blank”. Felt to be the metered verse form closest to natural speech. Became standard in Elizabethan and later poetic drama.

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Blank verse

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the analysis of the patterns of meter and rhyme in a poem. Helps to reveal the author’s formal use of words to create rhythm and to reinforce the meanings of the words through the manipulation of accent.

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Scansion

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