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The event that occurs within the body of work

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Action

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The main adversary of the hero/ protagonist, or a character with whom the hero comes in conflict with.

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Antagonist

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A reference which is chronologically out of place

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Anachronism

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Repetition of sounds in different words, usually at e beginning but can come in the middle or end

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Alliteration

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An indirect or inexplicit reference by one text to another text.

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Allusion

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Repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants

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Assonance

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A speech or remark that is said to the audience and not heard by other characters

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Aside

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An authors account or story of his or her own life

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Autobiography

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A book about someone’s life that was written by a different person

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Biography

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Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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Top of the story, the turning point

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Climax

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A struggle between opposing forces which is the drive of the story.

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Conflict

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A word that gives feelings by the word, ex: heart- the strength a character shows.

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Connotation

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Two lines of a verse forming a discrete meaning

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Couplet

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The exact meaning of the word, without the feelings or suggestions that the word might imply

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Denotation

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A way of speaking that is the way of a particular group or people.

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Dialect

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Any written forms of conversation between two or more speakers

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Dialogue

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The kind of language used in work, like concrete or abstract.

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Diction

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A character who changes within the course of a work..

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Dynamic

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A long narrative poem celebrating peoples heroic tradition

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Epic

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A song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation

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Elegy

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Short stories and novels that are not true

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Fiction

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A literary device where the present is interrupted by the distance or short past.

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Flashback

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A song that is sung by a common people of a region

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Folk ballad

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A basic structure underlying a system, concept or text

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Framework

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A broad term for poetry that does not follow a particular pattern or rhyme scheme

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Free verse

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To predict what is going to happen in the future

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Foreshadowing

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A specific category or type of literature.

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Genre

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An over-exaggeration

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Hyperbole

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The reversal of normal work in a sentence

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Inversion

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A description that can be imagined, used with all 5 senses

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Imagery

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A situation in which the result is what would be the opposite of what was likely to happen

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Irony

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A narrative poem told in short stanzas, usually tells folk wisdom or heroic action in a story

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Literary ballad

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Any short poem and an individual expresses his or her feelings in a thought

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Lyric

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Comparing two or more things without using like or as

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Metaphor

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A one way dialogue in which a speaker reveals his or her character

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Monologue

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The authors or speakers attitude toward speaking in the play, scene

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Mood

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A lesson at the author is trying to get to the reader

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Moral

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Reasons for the action behind the character

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Motivation

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A story of uncertain origin and authorship that seeks To explain processes of nature, the creation of the world, human nature.

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Myth

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The teller of the story

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Narrator

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A spoken or written accounts of events that make a story

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Narrative

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An eight line stanza of poetry

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Octave

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The use of words who make sounds

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Onomatopoeia

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Figurative language where contradictory ideas combine

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Oxymoron

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A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson

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Parable

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A humorous initiation of ideas, styles characters in literature

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Parody

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Making inanimate like objects come to life

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Personification

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The sequence of events in a story

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Plot

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Types of view from where the person is telling the story

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Point of view

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Rhythmic or metrical that is different to prose, it’s organized according to meanings instead of paragraphs

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Poetry

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The character who the plot is centered around, the hero in the piece of literature.

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Protagonist

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A play of words that sound the same but have different meanings

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Pun

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A repetition of a line or stanza usually at the end of each section of a poem

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Refrain

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Repetition of similar sound through 2 or more verses

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Rhyme

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A four line stanza of poetry

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Quatrain

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The ordered patterned of rhymes at the end of each line

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Rhyme scheme

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Reoccurring patterns of stress, quantity and pitch

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Rhythm

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A work that seeks to correct and criticize human beings by their means of humor and wit

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Satire

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The time and place of the narrative poem occurs

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Settings

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A six line stanza of poetry

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Sestet

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Comparing two things using like or as

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Similie

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A long speech that a character gives to tell what is happening and what he or she is thinking, very forthcoming with their thoughts and emotions

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Soliloquy

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A classic poem that is composed of 14 lines

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Sonnet

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A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit

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Stanza

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An account of events and people told for entertainment, a prose narrative that is brief in nature.

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Short Story

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The uncertainty that is built in the story of what is going to happen next

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Suspense

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Plot lines which or concurrent to the main plot of the story, but they are not the primary focus of the story

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Subplot

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An object that not only serves as an image but as a concept in the story

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Symbol

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A triplet, or rhyme with three lines in which all three words rhyme at the end of each of the 3 lines

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Tercet

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Any significant, reoccurring ideas In a so try or poem that gives a lesson

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