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Alliteration

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the repetition of initial constant sounds

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Allusion

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A reference within a work to something else, usually history or another artistic work.

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Antagonist

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A force or character who struggles against the protagonist.

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Antithesis

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parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings

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Apostrophe

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A speaker or writer’s directly addressing an absent person, abstraction, or inanimate object.

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Archetype

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Character types, plot patterns, or images that recur throughout world literature.

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Aside

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A stage device in which a character briefly discloses his thoughts in the presence of other characters who by convention do not hear him.

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Assonance

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words.

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Atmosphere

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The mood or emotion that the reader is supposed to share with the characters.

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Ballad

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A narrative poem often derived from folk- lore and originally intended to be sung or recited.

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Beast fable

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animal characters are represented as acting with human feelings and motives.

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Blank verse

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Unrhymediambicpentameter.

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Cacophony

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The use of words that are harsh or dis- sonant in sound.

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Caesura

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A pause in the middle of a line of poetry, usually indicated by a mark of punctuation.

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Chiasmus

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Two parallel phrases, clauses, or sen- tences in which the second reverses the elements of the first, inverting the parallel structure.

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Climax

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The point at which the plot reaches the moment of highest emotional intensity

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Closet drama

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A play written to be read and not performed.

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Comedy

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Drama that focuses on light-hearted mat- ters such as courtship and love and that may also be satirical.

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Comic relief

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Comic elements inserted into serious drama to relieve dramatic tension

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Conceit

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a type of comparison that draws a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things.

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Concrete language

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Words that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

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Conflict

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The opposition of two or more charac- ters or forces;

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Connotative language

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The meaning of a word plus all of its implications and emotional associations.

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Consonance

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The repetition of terminal consonant sounds (

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Couplets

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. A pair of rhymed lines

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Denouement

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The final outcome of a story and the last element of the plot

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Dynamic character

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A changing or developing character

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Drama*

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Literature written to be acted

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Dramatic irony *

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A type of irony in which the reader is aware of a plot development of which the characters of the story are unaware.

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End rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs at the ends of cor- responding lines of poetry.

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English sonnet

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Poetry whose thought is usually distributed over three quatrains

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Enjambment

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A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line.

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Epic

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A long stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a great national or ethnic hero of legend.

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Epilogue

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In drama, a short speech occurring at the end of the play in which an actor directly addresses the au- dience, often to summarize or comment on the play’s theme.

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Euphony

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The use of words whose sounds are pleas- ant and musical to the ear.

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Eye rhyme

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Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently

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Fable

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A brief fanciful story that embodies a par- ticular moral.

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Fairy tale

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A folktale set in an indefinite time and place and containing an element of the fantastic or magical.

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Figurative language

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An artful deviation from literal speech.

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Flat character

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A character with little individuality whose mindset the reader knows little about.

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Free verse

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Poetry with no set meter or rhyme

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Foil

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A character used to emphasize an- other character’s opposing traits within a work.

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Folktale

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A short tale passed along by word of mouth throughout a given culture.

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Genre*

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A type or category of literature.

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Heroic couplet

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A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

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Hyperbole

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A type of obvious overstatement used by writers to make a point

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Imagery

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Descriptive words or phrases that ap- peal to sense perceptions in order to create an impression.

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Imagery

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Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry.

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry.

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Italian sonnet

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Poetry whose first eight lines form a distinct unit of thought and whose last six lines form another

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Lyric poem

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A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic.

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Metonomy

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An expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself.

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Meter*

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The regular pattern of stressed and un- stressed syllables.

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Myth

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folktale that explains a specific aspect of life or the natural world, usually in terms of su- pernatural forces or beings, and that was at one time held to be true within a certain cultural group.

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Oxymoron

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Brief phrases that combine contradic- tory elements for effect

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Persona

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The person created by the author to tell the story, affecting the way a story is told.

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Personification

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Giving human characteristics to something that is not human.

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Plot*

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A series of events arranged to produce a defi- nite sense of movement toward a specific goal.

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Prologue

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An introduction to a literary work. In drama, a short speech at the beginning of the play in which an actor directly addresses the audience, often to introduce the setting, themes, or characters.

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Protagonist

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The main character of a story.

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Pun

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A type of wordplay in which the author com- bines two word meanings within a sentence.

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Quatrains

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A stanza or poem of four lines.

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Repartee

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Besting another’s remark or turning it to one’s own advantage in a contest of wits.

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Rhetoric

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The art of public speaking.

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Rhymed verse

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Verse having end rhyme and regu- lar meter.

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Round character

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The events that follow the inciting

incident and lead up to the crisis in a story.

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Sarcasm

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A type of irony that takes the form of

mock praise.

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Satire

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Corrective ridicule of some object of scorn usually outside of the literature itself.

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Sesets

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A stanza of six lines.

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Situational irony*

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A type of irony in which a story’s

events violate normal expectations.

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Slant rhyme

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Rhyme between two words with sim- ilar but slightly mismatched sounds

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Soliloquy

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In drama, a form of speech in which a character who believes himself to be alone dis- closes his innermost thoughts.

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Stanzas

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Divisions of a poem based on thought, meter, or rhyme and usually recognized by the number of lines they contain.

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Static character

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A character who remains essen- tially the same throughout the story.

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Structural irony *

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Sustained verbal irony that gen- erates two layers of meaning, one literal and one implied, throughout the entire work.

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Symbol*

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A person, place, thing, or idea within a narrative or poem that means something in ad- dition to itself.

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Synecdoche

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Using a part of something to stand for the whole.

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Tone

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The attitude of an author toward his or her subject.

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Tragedy

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A literary work in which the flaws of the protagonist cause him tremendous suffering, eventually resulting in a catastrophe, or disas- trous conclusion.

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Triplets

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A stanza of three lines that usually share the same rhyme

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Theme

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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.

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Understatement

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The representation of something as less important than it truly is.

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Verbal irony*

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Irony occurring when a speaker’s meaning differs from what he or she expresses in words.

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Wit

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A brief verbal expression that amuses listeners through a clever but unexpected turn of phrase or connection between ideas.

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