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Ana chronological

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Events are out of order Ex Pulp fiction

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Alternate rhyme

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AbAb used by Shakespeare, Sonnet’s

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Ad Spectatores

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When the narrator or Actors talk to the audience

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Allegory

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Narration or description in which objects, events, characters etc. represent abstract ideas Ex. Animal farm

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Analytic plays

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Plays that begin at the end of the story

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Alliteration

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Ex. Angry Alligator

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Analepsis

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A Flashback

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Alienation Effect

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The Audience distanced from the action by Narration for example

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Antithesis

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the opposition opposing thought

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Anadiplosis / Reduplication

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To double back to a previous scene

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Alexandrine

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Type of metre: Iambic hexameter Example see metres

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Anapaest

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A type of Metre for examples see Metres

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Anaphora

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A repeated figure of speech ex let freedom ring MLK

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Aposiopesis

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When a speaker fails to complete a sentence because of emotions for example

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Apostrophe

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talking about a absent person, god or or personified abstraction

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Apron Stage

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smaller part of stage close to the audience used Elizabethan theatre

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An aside

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dramatic talking to oneself , the audience or other characters secretly

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Assonance

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the repetition of of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables of close words but different consonants ex. Hear the mellow wedding bells

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Asyndeton

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the omission of conjunctions to coordinate phrases ex. I cam I saw I conquered.

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Authorial characterization

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Setting up a character with descriptive words

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Authorial Narrative situation

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The narrator is not a character but an informed person An outsider position. introduce d by Franz Stanzel

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Autodiegenic narration

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The narrator tell his/her own story

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Accent

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pronunciation variety used by specific groups

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Allophone

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phoneme is a unit of sound the makes one word different than another in language an allophone are different realizations of this example: a in mat a is a Phoneme allophones of a can be made longer in mad that difference makes a allophone

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Acoustic Phonetics

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the study of the speech signal: when air travels from the speakers mouth through the listener’s ear

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Articulation

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Speech made from the moving parts of the human body

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Articulators

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Organs which help to produce speech

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Articulatory setting

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theoretical: the idea that their can be a specific setting or posture for the body and body parts for each language

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Arytenoids

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two dog ear shaped pieces of cartilage in the larynx that help regulate pitch with the closure or constriction of the glottis

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Affricates

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Plosive + Fricative = Affricate /tʃ/ and /dʒ/.

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Airstream

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speech sounds are made by moving air; outward = egressive inward = ingressive

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Alveolar, Alveolar Palatal

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a hard bony ridge being the front teeth; a place of articulation for the consonants t, d, s, z, n, l,

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Ambisyllabic

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when a consonant belongs to two syllables

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Anterior

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sounds that originate at the front of the month

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Apical

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consonantal articulations made with the tip of the tongue

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Approximant

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consonants with little airflow obstruction ex, Spanish S and Greek S

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Aspiration

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the noise made when a consonantal constriction is released P, T, K

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Assimilation

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when a sound is influence by one of its neighbors in a word

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Attitude/inal

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the mood of the speaker

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Auditory

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Analysis of sound info by the listener; it is the listener and the and sound info

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Autosegmental Phonology

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separating phonological material of a utterance into components on different levels

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