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a tale in verse or prose where characters represent abstract ideas or moral qualities

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Allegory

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repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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comparison of two objects for the purpose of showing similarities between them

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Analogy

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reference to history, Bible, art, or literature

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Allusion

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a poetic foot of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

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Anapest

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a person opposing the protagonist or creating the conflict

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Antagonist

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a noun or pronoun that names a noun or pronoun (Ms. Asselta, the teacher)

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Appositive

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the balance of two contrasting thoughts or phrases

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Antithesis

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a writer directly addresses an absent person/place/thing

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Apostrophe

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a comment intended for an audience only (character only addressing the audience)

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Aside

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repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry

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Assonance

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author who writes their own biography

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Autobiography

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poem that tells a story, usually in 4 stances with 2nd and 4th lines rhyming

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Ballad

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poetic lines of unambic (unrhymed) pentameter often used in verse dramas and long narrative poems

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Blank Verse

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break or pause in a line of poetry

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Caesura

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a section or division of a long poem

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Canto

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the point in a narrative when the outcome is revealed (at the end)

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Climax

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18
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the character solves their problem

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Comedy

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when the social intrigues of a society are explored

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Comedy of Manners

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clash/strength or a story or novel, center of entire work

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Conflict

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repetition of non-initial consonant sounds in a line of poetry

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Consonance

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poetic foot containing a stressed followed by two unstressed

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Dactyle

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when one character speaks to himself or another and is usually a self-revealing moment in the character’s life (Soliloquy)

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Dramatic Monologue

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a formal poem mourning the death of an individual

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Elegy

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a sermon at the time of death

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Eulogy

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a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains state the problem and the couplet resolves it or the quatrains ask a question and the couplet answers it

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Elizabethan Sonnet

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a brief, witty, pointed comment, often a brief poem

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Epigram

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a saying on a tombstone

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Epitaph

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29
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a piece of non-fiction prose that expresses a personal point of view

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Essay

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the part of a story which helps the reader understand the background

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Exposition

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31
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the falling action after the climax

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Falling Action (Denoumerfuit)

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32
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language that departs from the literal to achieve special effects. Uses figurative techniques (terms)

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Figurative Language

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device that permits the author to say one thing but mean another. Always involves a comparison

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Figure of Speech

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34
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two rhymed lines of iambic potameter

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Heroic Couplet

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verse line consisting of 6 feet

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Hexameter

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an exaggeration or overstatement used for serious or humorous effect

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Hyperbole

37
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unstressed followed by stressed

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Iamb

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most common verse line, consists of 5 iambs

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Iambic Pentameter

39
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“in the middle of things,” when the writer plunged into the middle of the story

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In Medias Res

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an unrhymed line in one stanza signalling a rhyme in the next stanza

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Interlocking Rhyme

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the rhyme that recurs within the rhyme of poetry

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Internal Rhyme

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an attitude or way of writing that depends on a discrepancy on what is implied and what is real

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Irony

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sonnet with two parts, octave and sextet

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Italian Sonnet

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a standard phrase in Old English when something is described metaphorically

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Kenning

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popular in the 16th/17th cent. Made with used songs, dances, stages, effects. A play within a play.

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Masque

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a comparison without “like” or “as”
- Metaphysical Conceit: metaphor where two things are very different

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Metaphor

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a regular pattern of rhythm in poetry

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Meter

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when something trivial is treated humorously by approaching it in the grand style of an epic

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Mock Epic

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8 lines

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Octave

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a serious dignified lyric poem written on a serious occasion in honor of a person, place, or thing

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Ode

51
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when a sound creates a word

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Onomatopoeia

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writer says one thing and means something else

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Verbal Irony

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audience perceives a problem but the character does not realize it

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Dramatic Irony

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discrepancy between purpose and result

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Irony Of Situation

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a figure of speech which depends on a paradoxical contrast between two starkly different things

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Oxymoron

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a statement that is true in fact, but seems to contradict itself

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Paradox

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repetition of phrases which are similar in structure or meaning

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Parallelism

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figure of speech where something non-human is given human characteristics

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Personification

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central character who faces the conflict

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Protagonist

60
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a sacred song or lyric

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Psalm

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a poetic stanza of 4 lines

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Quatrain

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a phrase or sentence repeated at intervals in a poem (like a chorus in a song)

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Refrain

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the action of the play that builds toward the climax

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Rising Action

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piece of writing that holds human weaknesses up for ridicule. Written for the intent to change the mind/opinion of the reader

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Satire

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6 lines

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Sestet

66
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a figure of speech (comparison) using like or as

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Simile

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speech of some length in a play in which the speaker, speaking aloud, alone on stage, reveals innermost thoughts

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Soliloquy

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a poem of 14 lines, all have a question/answer, problem/solution, etc.

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Sonnet

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variable kind of poetic meter. Always a stressed followed by a variable of unstressed

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Sprung Rhythm

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style of writing that attempts to imitate the flow of a character’s thoughts as they are thinking them (James Joyce)

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Stream of Consciousness

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the way of writing, determined by word choice, arrangement of words (syntax), and relationship of sentences to each other

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Style

72
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arrangement of words

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Syntax

73
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word/phrase that stands for idea

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Symbol

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literary movement where a poet avoids direct statements, instead works through symbols to establish meaning

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Symbolism

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verse form consisting of three line stanzas in which the middle line rhymes with the first and third of the next stanza

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Tertze Rema

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4 feet

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Tetrameter

77
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when the conflict is not resolved

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Tragedy

78
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3 feet

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Trimeter

79
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a poetic foot of stressed followed by unstressed

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Trochee

80
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a number of 3 line stanzas with one 4 lines stanza. First and third lines of first stanza are returning in succeeding stanzas and last two lines of concluding stanzas

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Villanelle

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formation of characters that are frozen in place

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Vignette

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dignified and impersonal that seek to instruct or persuade

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Formal Essays

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relaxed and conversational, dealing with any subject matter

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Informal Essays

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