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Repetition of initial consonant sounds

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Alliteration

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A tale, verse or prose in where the characters represent abstract ideas or moral qualities

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Allegory

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Reference to the bible, history, or art in literature

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Allusion

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Comparison between two objects for the purpose of finding similarities

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Analogy

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Poetic foot of two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable

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Anapest

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A noun or pronoun that explains another noun or pronoun

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Appositive

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The character opposing the protagonist, causing the conflict

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Antagonist

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The balancing of two contrasting words or phrases

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Antithesis

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Poetic device in which the writer directly addresses a person, place, or thing as if it were present

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Apostrophe

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A speech in plays which is intended for the audience only and not for the other characters onstage

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Aside

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Repetition of vowl sounds in a line of poetry

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Assonance

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Poem that tells a story, four line stanzas, 2nd and 4th lines rhyme

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Balled

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Earliest ballads that have no known author

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Folk ballad

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Story of a persons life

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Biography

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Poetic verse of unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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A break or pause in a line of poetry

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Caesura

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A section or division of a poem

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Canto

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Decisive moment in a story where the reader knows the outcome

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Climax

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Protagonist extricates himself from his obstacle

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Comedy

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Sophisticated humor that appeals to the sophisticated society, comedy stems from the breaking the rules of society

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Comedy of manner

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The struggle the protagonist faces, the plot revolves around this

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Conflict

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Repetition of consonance sounds in a line of poetry

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Consonance

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A poetic foot with stressed followed by two unstressed

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Dactyl

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A brief witty pointed content, often a brief poem

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Epigram

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A short poem in memory of someone who has died (usually on a tombstone)

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Epitaph

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a sonnet consisting three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter

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Elizabethan Sonnet

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Non fiction, expressing a point if view
Formal-dignified, instruct persuade
Informal-relaxed,conversational, any topic

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Essay

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After the climax

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Denouement/ falling action

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A tale which uses animals with human characteristics to provide a moral message

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Fable

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Departs from the literal to achieve special effect

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Figurative language

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Permits a writer to say one thing but mean another

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Figures of speech

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Two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter

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Heroic couplet

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A verse line if six feet

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Hexameter

36
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Overstatement of fact used for serious or humorous effect

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Hyperbole

37
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Unstressed followed by a stress

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Iamb

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Five lines of iamb

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Iambic pentameter

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Rhyme scheme composed of, A-B-A-B-C-B

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Interlocking rhyme

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Rhyme within a line of poetry

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Internal rhyme

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Figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or between them

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Metaphor

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A metaphor that compares two startlingly similar things

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Metaphysical Conceit

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A regular pattern of rhythm in poetry

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Meter

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Work that deals with a trivial topic and treated humorously that still has the components of an epic

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Mock epic

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Eight lines of a sonnet

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Octave

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Serious dignified lyric poem written for a special occasion, in honor of a person or abstract idea

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Ode

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Word that sound suggests the meaning

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Onomatopoeia

48
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Poem mourning the death of someone

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Elegy

49
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A sermon at a funeral

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Eulogy

50
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A poem that has 14 lines

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Sonnet

51
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Variable meter that involves stressed following a varying amount of unstressed

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Sprung rhythm

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A technique that imitates the characters thoughts

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Stream of consciousness

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Authors characteristic way of writing word choice, arrangement of words, relation to words and sentences

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Style

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Word that stands for an idea

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Symbol

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Literary movement where no direct statements only symbols to suggest any meaning and create a mood

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Symbolism

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A poetic line of 4 feet

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Tetrameter

57
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A poetic line of 3 feet

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Trimeter

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Hero does not solve his problem

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Tragedy

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The way of writing, the way words are arranged, and put together and make constitutes

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Syntax

60
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Stressed followed by one unstressed

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Trochee

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Itricaly pattern French poem, number of three line stanzas, last stanza is four lines, first and third lines are used as refrains, refrain is the end of the poem, only has two rhymes in whole poem

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Villanelle

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