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When characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities; also an extended metaphor. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious or political significance and the characters are often personifications of abstract ideas such as charity,

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Allegory

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The repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. It can be used to reinforce meaning, unify thought, or simply for the musical effect.

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Alliteration

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A reference to someone, something, or some event known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, music, art, or some other branch of culture. Allusions conjure up biblical authority, scenes from Shakespeare’s plays, historic figures,

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Allusions

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Out of time; placing something in a time where it does not belong

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Anachronism

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A comparison between two items, situations, or ideas that are somewhat alike but unlike in most respects. Frequently an unfamiliar or complex object or idea will be explained through comparison to a familiar or simpler one.

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Analogy

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A brief story told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something.

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Anecdote

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A character or force in conflict with the main character, or protagonist

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Antagonist

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An atypical protagonist, who can be particularly graceless, inept, stupid, or dishonest.

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Antihero

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the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences

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Antithesis

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An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman or a personified abtraction that cannot comprehend. Apostrophe often provides a speaker the opportunity to think aloud.

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Apostrophe

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An image, story-pattern, or character type which recurs frequently in literature and evokes strong, often unconscious, associations in the reader.

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Archetype

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A succession of harsh, discordant sounds in either poetry or prose, used to achieve a specific effect.

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Cacophony

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The Latin phrase meaning “seize the day.” This is a very common literary theme, especially in lyric poetry; it emphasizes that life is short, time is fleeting, and that one should make the most of present pleasures.

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Carpe Diez

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undergoes change.

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Character: Dynamic

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Does not undergo change

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Character: Static

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Exhibits one personality trait

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Character: Flat

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Exhibits various, often contradictory, personality traits

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Character: Round

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A writer’s choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language, which combine to help create meaning.

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Diction

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Literally, a “double-goer,” a mysterious twin or a double fighting against your good work.

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Doppelgänger

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“Bad place,” - an imaginary world which was constructed to be perfect, but failed; present tendencies are carried out to their unpleasant end.

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Dystopia

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A sudden understanding or realization which prior to this was not thought of or understood.

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Epiphany

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a sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors.

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Extended metaphor

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A rhetorical appeal which relies upon the credibility or trustworthiness of the speaker or author.

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Ethos

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A combination of pleasing sounds in poetry or prose (opposite of cacophony).

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Euphony

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A scene in a literary work that interrupts the action to show an event that happened earlier.

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Flashback

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A character whose traits are the opposite of those of another character and who thus points up the strengths or weaknesses of another character.

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Foil

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The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest coming action.

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Foreshadowing

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A work characterized by a general mood of decay, action that is dramatic and generally violent or otherwise disturbing, loves that are destructively passionate, and settings that are grandiose, if gloomy or bleak.

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Gothic

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A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without in-tending to be literally true, as in the statement “He ate everything in the house.”

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Hyperbole

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

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Imagery

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A writer or speaker says one thing and means something entirely different.

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Verbal Irony

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creates a discrepancy between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience member knows to be true.

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Dramatic Irony

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exists when there is an incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens due to forces beyond human comprehension or control.

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Situational Irony

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To place side by side purposefully so as to permit comparison or contrast.

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Juxtaposition

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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as. They assert the identity of dissimilar things

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Metaphor

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A character, incident, idea or object that recurs in various works or in various parts of the same work.

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Motif

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Use of words whose sound echoes the sense (bang, fizz, plop)

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Onomatopoeia

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The yoking of two contradictory term; ex. sweet pain, thunderous silence, original copy BUT may also be a phrase: conspicuous by her absence, make haste slowly.

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Oxymoron

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An apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth

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Paradox

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A humorous imitation of another, usually serious, work, trying to make the original work seem absurd or to point out the flaws in the original work.

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Parody

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“emotional appeal,” A rhetorical appeal that plays on the emotions of the audience.

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Pathos

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a speaker created by a writer to tell a story or to speak in a poem. They are not a character in a story or narrative, nor does a persona necessarily directly reflect the author’s personal voice. They are a separate self, created by and distinct from the author, through which he or she speaks.

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Persona/ speaker

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A form of metaphor in which human characteristics are attributed to non-human things.

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Personification

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The central character in a literary work, at odds with the antagonist.

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Protagonist

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A play on words. Ex. In Romeo & Juliet, Mercutio’s “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.” Or “My advanced geometry class is full of squares.”

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Pun

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Asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely.

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Rhetorical Questions

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The use of language to hurt or ridicule. It is less subtle in tone than verbal irony.

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Sarcasm

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Literary art of ridiculing a subject, folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of this is usually some human frailty; people, institutions, ideas, and things are all fair game. Sarcasm, irony, and hyperbole are often used in writing satire.

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Satire

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The time and place in which the events of a story occur, often helping to create an atmosphere or mood. Not just physical, setting includes ideas, customs, values, and beliefs of a particular time and place.

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Setting

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A common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as “like”, “as”, “than”, “appears”, and “seems”

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Similie

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The recording or re-creation of a character’s flow of thought. Raw images, perceptions, memories come and go in seemingly random, but actually controlled, fashion, much as they do in people’s minds.

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stream of Consciousness

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A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance. They are educational devices for evoking complex ideas without having to resort to painstaking explanations that would make a story more like an essay than an experience.

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Symbol

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The arrangement of words within sentences and sentences within paragraphs.

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Syntax

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The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work. It provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols, and other elements of a work are organized. It is important not to mistake the this for the actual subject of the work; this refers to the abstract concept that is made concrete through the images, characterization, and action of the text.

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Theme

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A statement of opinion that is the writer’s focus or main idea that is developed in an essay.

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Thesis

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The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style. It may be characterized as serious or ironic, sad or happy, angry or affectionate, bitter or nostalgic, or any other attitudes and feelings that human beings experience.

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Tone

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The opposite of hyperbole, understatement refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended. Understatement usually has an ironic effect, and sometimes may be used for comic purposes, as in Mark Twain’s statement, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” See also hyperbole, irony.

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Understatement

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