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Allegory

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A story / poem / picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning (typically moral / political)

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Alliteration

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Allusion

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An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

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Aside

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A remark or passage in a play, intended to be heard by the audience but not by other characters

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Assonance

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Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants (eg sonnet, porridge) but also use of identical consonants with different vowels (eg killed, cold, culled)

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Blank verse

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Verse without rhyme, typically uses iambic pentameter

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Caesura

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A pause in the middle of a line of poetry, typically marked by some kind of punctuation

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Dialogue

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A conversation between 2 or more people as a feature of a book / play / film

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Dramatic irony

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The significance of a character’s words or actions is clear to the audience or reader but unknown to the character(s)

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Enjambment

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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line / couplet / stanza

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Extended metaphor

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A metaphor that unfolds across multiple lines or paragraphs of a text, making use of multiple interrelated metaphors

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Analepsis

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Flashback; a move to a scene in a film / novel / etc that is set before the main story

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Prolepsis

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Flashforward; a move to a scene in a film / novel / etc that is set later than the main story

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Form

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A way of categorising literature based on its structure or purpose

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Foreshadowing

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Where warnings about events to come are planted in the text

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Genre

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A style or category of art, music or literature

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

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Iambic pentameter

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A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short / unstressed syllable followed by one long / stressed sylllable

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Imagery

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Visually descriptive or figurative language

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Irony

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Expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect

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Juxtaposition

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Where two things seen or placed close together have contrasting effect

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

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Monologue

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A long speech by one actor in a play or film

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Narrative

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A spoken or written account of connected events; a story

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Narrator

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The voice an author takes on to tell a story (this can have a personality different to the author’s)

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

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Pathetic fallacy

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Giving emotions to something non-human, often used to describe the environment. Weather and season can be described with human emotions to reflect a mood or create a tone

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Personification

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Giving any human attribute to an object

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Protagonist

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The main character; they drive the story by pursuing a goal

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Pun

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A figure of speech that plays with words that have multiple meanings, or with homophones (words that sound the same but mean different things)

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Semantic field

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A group of words or expressions related in meaning, used by writers to keep a certain image persistent in their readers’ minds

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Sibilance

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A hissing sound created in a group of words through the repetition of “s” sounds

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Simile

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A figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced by “like” or “as”

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Soliloquy

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Where a character speaks their thoughts aloud, alone or regardless of hearers, especially by a character in a play

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Sonnet

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A fourteen-line poem, using any formal rhyme scheme; in English typically has ten syllables per line. Often about love

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Stage directions

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Instruction in the text of a play indicating movement, position or tone of an actor, or sound effects and lighting

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Symbol

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A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract

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Stanza

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A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse

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Symbolism

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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

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Verse

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Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

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