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Alter Ego

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Represents another personality

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Analogy

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compare 2 things

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Anaphora

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Repetition at beginning

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Antithesis

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Parallel structure with opposing ideas

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Asyndeton

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Use no Conjunctions

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Bildungsroman

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coming of age

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Characterization

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author creates character

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commercial fiction

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pop fiction, profitable

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Diction

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word choice

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Ellipsis

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dropped word (often in repetition)

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Epistrophe

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Repetition at end

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Exposition

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Beginning of story

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Incongruity

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Things don’t seem to go together

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In medias res

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start in middle of things

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Irony

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twist on expected

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Juxtaposition

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Side by Side for comparision

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Literary analysis

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break down and consider devices

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Literary criticism

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interpretation of analysis

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Literary Fiction

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explores human condition

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Litotes

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understatement to show how big it is

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Lyric/Lyrical

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type of poem- emotion, praises nature and God

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Mood

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atmosphere or feeling

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Motif

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re-occuring idea

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Narrative

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Poem

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Parallel Structure

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grammatical similarities

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Polysyndeton

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use many conjuntions

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Prose

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ex novel

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Satire

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Point out flaws to improve them- humor irony

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Schemes

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arrangement in sentencess

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Syntax

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Sentence Structure

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Themes

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Universal Truth

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Tone

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Attitude from Narrator or author

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Tropes

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Figures of Speech - metaphor, irony, understatement, overused

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Verse

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Poetry

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Apothesis

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made holy

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Enjamnent

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run on line like in poetry

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refrain

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repeated line (chorus in song)

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deux ex machina

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improbable rescue

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Romanticism

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Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850

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Gothic Literature

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Gothic fiction, which is largely known by the genre of Gothic horror and gothic fiction, is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction, horror, death and romance.

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Apostrophe

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when a speaker directly addresses someone or something like love, a person (dead or alive), a place, or even a thing, like the sun or the sea.

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Doppelganger

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an apparition or double of a living person. also alter ego

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Epistolary

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relating to or denoting the writing of letters or literary works in the form of letters. ex: Frankenstein

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Caricature

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A picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

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Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

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Double Entendre

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a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent.

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Paralepsis

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to omit or to leave something on one side. It is defined as a rhetorical device in which an idea is deliberately suggested through a brief treatment of a subject, while most of the significant points are omitted.

ex: not to mention…

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Metonymy

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The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

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Rhetorical Climax

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a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.

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Chiasmus

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figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism.

X

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Tricolon

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rhetorical device that employs a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.

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Inverted Syntax

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Inverted syntax occurs when lines do not follow traditional sentence patterns, for example when the subject and verb or the object and subject are reversed.

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Periodic Structure/syntax

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Subject and verb placed near the end of the sentence

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Unreliable Narrator

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Narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised

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Point of View

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the narrator’s position in relation to the story being told.

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Allegory

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a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
ex: parable

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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