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Climax

A

Most intense part of story

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Denotation

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Dictionary definition

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Character

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Person in story

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Couplet

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2 lines of poetry that rhyme

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Carpe diem

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seize the day, theme of lots of literature

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Connotation

A

Feeling a word invokes

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Caesura

A

Natural break in poetry (To be-Or not to be)

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Conflict

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Struggle between opposing forces

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Catharsis

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Tragedy, cleansing of emotions, radical change/reinvention

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Denouement

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Outcome/solution of story

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Chiasms

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Parts of a sentence are reversed (we forget what we want to remember and remember what we want to forget)

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Conceit

A

Surprising analogy (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?)

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Characterization

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Writer reveals personality of character (She is kind/She performed a kind act)

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Dialogue

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Conversation between characters

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Cliche

A

Overused expression (diamond in the rough)

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Allegory

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Story interpreted to reveal a moral/political meaning (Tortoise and the Hare)

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Cacophony

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Harsh/discordant mixture of sound (cold chasm is deep and dry)

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18
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Blank Verse

A

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Ballad

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Poem/song narrating a story

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Atmosphere

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Feeling created by environment

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Asyndeton

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Taking out a conjunction (dog bound, lept, raced through town)

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds (claps hands and stamps feet)

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Aside

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Spoken by actor, intended for audience

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Apostrophe

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Addressing the dead/not human (O happy dagger!)

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Antagonist

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At conflict with main character (Chase Andrews)

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Anaphora

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Repetition of word/phrase to create an effect (We shall fight)

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Analogy

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Comparison of 2 things, similar in some way (Juliet is a rose)

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Archetype

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An idea/character/circumstance common in literature, universal theme (The Hero, Call to Adventure)

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Allusion

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Reference to another literature/person/event

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Alliteration

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Repeats first consonant letters

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Free Verse

A

Poetry with no rhyme or meter (blank verse has meter)

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Euphemism

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A substitute word that’s less harsh (downsize instead of cut)

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Diction

A

Author’s word choice

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Foot

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A group of syllables in poetry with one accented and the other not (seen from above)

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Enjambment

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A continuation of a sentence from one line of poetry to the next

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Euphony

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Pleasing combination of words (leisure, nanny, eerie)

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Dramatic Monologue

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Poem in which the speaker carries on alone

38
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Flashback

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An interruption in the narrative to show previous events

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Exposition

A

Opening scene in which the characters/setting/theme can be introduced

40
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Elegy

A

Mourning poem of lament

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Foreshadowing

A

A hint of what’s to come

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Hamartia

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A tragic flaw that comes from one’s strengths

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Dramatic Irony

A

Reader/audience know something the character doesn’t

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Epistrophe

A

Repitition of concluding words/word endings (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil)

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Epiphany

A

Deep realization

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Juxtaposition

A

Two opposites placed together (it was the best of times it was the worst of times)

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Imagery

A

Visually descriptive/figurative language

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Hyperbole

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An extreme exaggeration

48
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Hyperbole

A

An extreme exaggeration

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Motif

A

A repeated theme/phrase

50
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Metonymy

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Replacing a word with one that means something similar (calling a car “wheels”)

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Narrator

A

Person telling the story

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Onomatopoeia

A

A word that sounds like a noise

53
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Litotes

A

Negating a positive (not bad, you’re not wrong)

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