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Allegory

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story with multiple levels of meaning and having a moral or lesson

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Alliteration

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repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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Allusion

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“reference to literature, the bible,, or historical events/era:

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Analogy

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point by point comparison

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Anecdote

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short story with a point

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Antagonist

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person/thing in opposition to the protagonist

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Antithesis

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contrasting two ideas in a parallel statement

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Apostrophe

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a speaker addressing someone/thing not present

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Aside

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short comments spoken directly to the audience in a play

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Assonance

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repetition of the same vowel sounds

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Autobiography

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story written about one’s own life by self

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Biography

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story written by someone else about a person’s life

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Blank Verse

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poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Carpe diem

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Seize the day

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Catastrophe

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marks the fall of the central character

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Character

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person/thing/animal that is in a story

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Characterization

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process of giving personality to characters

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Cliche

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catch phrase that is oversed

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Climax

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point of highest intensity in a story

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Colloquialism

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“language of a particular region, era, slag”

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Conflict

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struggle between opposing forces

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Connotation

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emotions associated with a word

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Context Clues

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hints in the text to help understand vocabulary

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Couplet

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two lines that rhyme

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Denotation
the dictionary definition of a word
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Denouement
the final resolution of a story
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Description
"detailed, sensory writing"
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Dialect
regional style of speaking
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Dialogue
Conversation between two or more characters
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Diction
author's word choice
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Dramatic Irony
reader knows what the characters do not
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Dramatic Monologue
when one person is talking to him/herself
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Empathy
ability to share in another's emotions
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End Rhyme
line's end words have the same sound
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Epic
narrative poem about a hero's deeds
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Essay
brief non-fiction composition
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Ethics
standards of right and wrong
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Exposition
part of story where setting and characters are revealed
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Extended Metaphor
a comparison used throughout a literary work
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Fable
short story with lesson
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Falling Action
loose ends begin to come together in story
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Figurative Language
language that is not to be taken literally
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Figure of speech
words that describe something creatively
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Flashback
action goes back to a previous occurence
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Flat Character
a character that does not change: static
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Foreshadowing
hint of a future occurrence
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Free Veryse
no set rhyme pattern
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Genre
types of literature
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Gothic
story about magic, supernatural, horror
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Hubris
arrogance cause by excessive pride.
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Hyperbole
extreme exaggeration
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Iambic Pentameter
5 stressed/ unstressed beats per line of poetry/play
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Imagery
vivid sensory description
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Irony
outcome is contrary to what is expected
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Main Character
the protagonist
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Major Character
a character that appears throughout work
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Melodrama
story with exaggerated emotions, conflicts
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Metaphor
comparison where on object changes into another
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Minor Character
a character that happens once or twice in literary work
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Mood
emotions you feel as you read a work
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Moral
lesson learned from a story
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Motiff
recurring theme,object,symbol in literature
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Myth
a traditional story about a custom
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Narrative
telling a story
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Nuance
a hint of meaning
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Omniscient
all knowing
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Onomatapoeia
words sound like the thing described
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Oxymoron
two opposite terms in a phrase that express impossibilt
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Parable
short story used to teach life lessons
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Paradox
apparent contradiction that is true
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Parallelelism
repetition of grammatical sentence structure
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Parody
humorous imitation of a writing
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Personification
giving human traits to objects
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Plagiarism
pretending someone else's work is yours
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Plot
the sequence of events in a story
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Point of view
perspective from which a story is told
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Prose
writing that is neither poetry nor drama
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Protagonist
"the main character, most sympathetic character, usually the hero?
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Pesudonym
a fake name
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Pun
making a joked useing a words' multiple meanings
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Refrain
"repeated word, phrase or group of lines"
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Resolution
all of the conflicts in a story are solved
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Rhyme Scheme
set pattern of rhyme in a poem
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Rising Action
point in the story where the characters and conflict are developed
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Rite of Passage
Literary period focused on emotions, imagination, optimism
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Round Character
a character that changes thorughout a story
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Romanticism
literary period focused on emotions , imagination,optimism
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Round Character
a character that changes throughout a story; dynamic
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Satire
critical writing to cause change
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Setting
time/place where a story occurs
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Similie
a comparison using like or as
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Soliloquy
a character is thinking out loud through a long speach
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Sonnet
14 line poem with a set rhyme scheme
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Stanza
group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
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Stereotype
prejudged character
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Style
a manner of speaking.writing
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Symbolism
an object that means moer than itself
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Theme
author's message in a story
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Thesis
statement outlining what an essay will be describing, defending or illustrating
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Tone
how the author feels about a topic
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Tragedy
literature about the fall of a person of high status
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Turning Point
man character makes important decision that affects outcome

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