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The _______ is the series of events which take place after the climax.

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Falling action

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A character in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison.

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Foil

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A very short tale told by a character in a literary work.

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Anecdote

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In literature generally, a major work dealing with an important theme.

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Epic

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A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell. The use of _______ serves to intensify the impact of the work.

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Imagery

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The repetition of VOWEL sounds in a literary work, especially in a poem.

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Assonance

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A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Blank verse

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A pleasant combination of sounds.

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Euphony

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A story in poetic form; often about tragic love and usually sung.

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Ballad

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Seize the day

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Carpe diem

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A literary type or form.

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Genre

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Am unpleasant combination of sounds.

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Cacophony

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The story of a person’s life written by someone other ths the subject of the work.

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Biography

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A person or anything presented as a person.

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Character

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The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work.

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Characterization

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A story illustrating an idea or moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings.

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Allegory

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A movement or tendency in art, music, and literature to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece or Rome. (Differs from Romanticism no emotional impact)

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Classicism

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A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work BAD GUY

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Antagonist

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A statement which can contain 2 or more meanings

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Ambiguity

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The decisive moment in a drama, the climax is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads.

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Climax

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A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. Modern funny- Shakespearean end well

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Comedy

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In the plot of a drama, ______ occurs when the protagonist is opposed by some person or force in the play.

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Conflict

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A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman.

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Apostrophe

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A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. 1 CHARACTER OR THEME 2 WORKS

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Allusion

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The story of a persons life written by himself or herself.
Autobiography
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Also called "resolution". Is the point in a drama to which the entire play has been leading. It is the logical outcome.
Conclusion
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A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play.
Aside
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The scene in a tragedy which includes the death or moral destruction of the protagonist.
Catastrophe
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An authors choice of words. Since words have specific meanings, and since one's choice of words can affect feelings, a writer's choice of words can have a great impact in a literary work.
Diction
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The repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry.
Consonance
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It is that part of a drama which follows the climax and leads to the resolution.
Denouement
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In drama, a conversation between characters.
Dialogue
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A brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation.
Aphorism
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A judgement based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement.
Inference
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In literature, a way of saying one thing and meaning something else.
Figurative language
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Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specifics metrical pattern.
Free Verse
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Literature designed explicitly to instruct.
Didactic literature
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A lyric poem lamenting death.
Elegy
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A figure of speech in which an overstatement or EXAGGERATION occurs.
Hyperbole
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The _______ of a word is it's dictionary definition.
Denotation
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A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work.
Epigraph
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Used for poetic effect, a repetition of the INITIAL sounds of several words in a group. I have Stood Still and Stopped the Sound
Alliteration
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An example of ________ that states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect.
Figure of Speech
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In drama, a method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come.
Foreshadowing
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The ______ of a word is it's emotional content.
Connotation
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In literature, a word of phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character.
Epithet
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A stanza of TWO lines usually RHYMING.
Couplet
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A mild word of phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, or offensive.
Euphemism
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A reference to an event which took place prior to the beginning of a story or play.
Flashback
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In drama, the presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the play.
Exposition
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A brief tale designed to illustrate a moral lesson.
Fable
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In literature, the occurrence of a single speaker saying something to a silent audience.
Dramatic Monologue
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In literature, a way of saying one thing and meaning something else.
Figurative Language
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The result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected.
Irony
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A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities WITHOUT the use of like or as
Metaphor
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A figure of speech in which a word represents something else which it suggests.
Metonymy
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The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work.
Mood
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An unverifiable story based on a religious belief.
Myth
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A poem which tells a story.
Narrative Poem
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A fictional prose work of substantial length.
Novel
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A poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea.
Ode
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A literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents. Knock roar splash boom
Onomatopoeia
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A combination of contradictory terms. Loving hate; jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
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A brief story, told or written in order to teach a moral lesson.
Parable
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A situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but I closer comparison, does not.
Paradox
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A repetition of sentences using the same structure.
Parallel Structure
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A literary work that imitates the style of another literary work.
Parody
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A fallacy of reason in suggesting the nonhuman phenomena act from human feelings.
Pathetic Fallacy
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A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics.
Personification
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The structure of a story.
Plot
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A piece of literature contains a speaker who is speaking either in the first person, telling things from his or her own perspective, or in the 3rd person, telling things from the perspective of an onlooker.
Point of View
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The hero or central character of a literary work.
Protagonist
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A play on words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time.
Pun
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A four-line stanza which may be rhymed or unrhymed.
Quatrain
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The part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs-the way things are going to be from then on.
Resolution
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``` In poetry, a pattern of repeated sounds End Internal Eye Half Final consonants ```
Rhyme
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Recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal intervals, similar to meter.
Rhythm
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The part of a drama which begins with the exposition and sets the stage for the climax.
Rising Action
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A piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work.
Satire
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The time and place in which a story unfolds.
Setting
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A short fictional narrative.
Short story
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A figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found and which uses the words "like" or "as".
Simile
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In drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
Soliloquy
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A lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed.
Sonnet
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A major subdivision in a poem.
Stanza
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An author's method of treating a character so that the character is immediately identified with a group.
Stereotype
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Many things enter into the ______ of a work: the authors use of figurative language, diction, sound affects and other literary devices.
Style
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________ in fiction results primarily rim two factors: the reader's identification with concern for the welfare of a convincing and sympathetic character, and the anticipation of violence.
Suspense
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A device in literature where an object represents an idea.
Symbolism
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An ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity.
Theme
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_____ expresses the author's attitude toward his or her subject.
Tone
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A type of drama which is pre-eminently the story of one person, the hero. The story leads up to the death or moral destruction of the protagonist.
Tragedy
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A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant.
Understatement

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