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Allegory

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Story conveying a meaning other than the literal; abstract principles represented by characters or figures

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Anagnorisis

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Discovery; hero suddenly becoming aware of a situation or true character

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Anaphora

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Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of neighboring clauses for emphasis

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Antecedent

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Word, phrase, or clause that a pronoun replaces

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Apologue

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Short story with a moral, often involves talking animals or objects; a fable; short allegory

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Apostrophe

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Speaker addresses an inanimate object

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Ballad

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Relatively short narrative poem written in song-like stanza form

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Bildungsroman

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Novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character usually from childhood to maturity

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Blank verse

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Cacophony

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Deliberate use of harsh and awkward sounds

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Caesura

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Pause or interruption in a poem; opposite of enjambment

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Canon

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Works of a writer

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Caricature

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Portrait that exaggerates a human trait

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Catharsis

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Emotional release of an audience at the end of a successful tragedy

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Clerihew

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Rhyme of four lines, usually regarding a subject mentioned in the first line

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Colloquialism

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Informal speech

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Comedy of manners

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Play that satirizes the manners and affectations of a social class, often using stereotypes

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Conceit

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Extended metaphor that compares two seemingly dissimilar things

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Connotation

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Implied meaning of a word

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds within words

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Controlling image

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Metaphor that dominates an entire work

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Couplet

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Rhyming pair of lines

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Dactyl
Poetic foot with three syllables, one stressed and two short or unstressed
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Denotation
Literal meaning of a word, dictionary definition
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Deus ex machina
Literally "god out of a machine," sudden artificial or improbable resolution to a story, often implying a lack of skill on the part of the writer
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Diction
Word choice
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Dramatic monologue
Poem in which a character delivers a speech explaining their feelings, actions, or motives
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Elegy
Mournful or melancholic poem
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English sonnet
Sonnet divided into three quatrains and a final couplet, using the rhyming scheme "abab cdcd efef gg;" Shakespearean sonnet
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Enjambment
Continuation of a phrase or clause to another line without pause (punctuation); opposite of caesura
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Epigram
Short, clever poem with a witty train of thought
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Farce
Extremely broad humor
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Foil
Character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, to emphasize the other character's traits
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Foot
Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Foreshadowing
Event or statement that suggests a future event
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Free verse
Poetry without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical pattern
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Hamartia
Fatal flaw of a tragic hero
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Hubris
Excessive pride that leads to a protagonist's downfall
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Hyperbole
Exaggeration or overstatement; opposite of understatement
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Iamb
Poetic foot with two syllables- first unstressed and second stressed
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Implicit
Implied meaning; opposite of explicit
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Lyric
Expression of observations and feelings of a single speaker
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Magical realism
Combination of realistic details with surreal, dreamlike, or magical elements
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Metaphor
Analogy that states one thing is another
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Metonymy
Use of a part to mean a whole object (I.e. Hands to mean laborers), related to a synecdoche
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Motif
Recurring or dominant element in a work
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Objectivity
Impersonal view of events
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Onomatopoeia
Word that sounds like what it represents
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Opposition
Contrasting pair of elements
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Paradox
Seemingly apparent contradiction which is accurate on closer inspection
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Parallelism
Repeated words, phrases, clauses, or grammatical structure used for effect.
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Pastoral
Work idealizing the simple life of shepherds or of tranquil nature
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Peripeteia
Reversal of fortune or character
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Persona
Narrator in a non-first-person novel
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Personification
Giving human qualities or form to inanimate objects
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Protagonist
Main character
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Quatrain
Four-line stanza
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Satire
Genre which ridicules it's subject by exposing flaws, often to provoke or prevent change
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Sestina
Poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet (three line stanza), for a total of 39 lines (same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order)
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Simile
"Weak" metaphor, often uses like or as
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Stanza
Group of lines in verse; poetical equivalent of a paragraph
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Subjectivity
Personal view of events
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Subjunctive mood
Mood (grammar) that sets up a hypothetical situation (i.e if ___ were ___)
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Symbol
Word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level
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Synecdoche
Metaphor in which a part is spoken of as the whole object; related to metonymy
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Synesthesia
One kind of sensation is described in the terms of another; mixing of senses
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Syntax
Word order
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Theme
Central idea of a work
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Terza rima
Poem with verses of three lines and rhyme scheme "aba bcb cdc"
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Tragic flaw
Weakness of an otherwise good or great individual that leads to his/her downfall

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