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Rhythm

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Refers to recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry

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Connotations define

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associations and implications that go beyond a word’s literal meanings

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Sarcasm define

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verbal irony that is calculated to hurt someone by false praise

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Setting define

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context in which the action of a story occurs

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Extended Metaphor

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Sustained comparison in which part or all of a poem consists of a series of related metaphors

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2 parts of tone:

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writers attitude

mood by all elements of poem

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Style define

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distinctive manner in which a writer arranges words to achieve particular effects

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Scene

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subdivision of an act in drama.
consist of units of action in which there are no changes in the setting or break in the continuity of time in modern plays

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Understatement define

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says less than is intended

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Near rhyme define

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sounds are almost but not exactly alike

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Personification define

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attribution of human characteristics to nonhuman things

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Oxymoron define

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condesned form of a paradox in which two contradictory words are used together

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Middle diction define

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spoken by most education people, less formal level of diction

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Prose Form

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Kind of open form poetry that is printed as prose and represents the most clear opposite of fixed form poetry

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Onomatopoeia define

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use of a word that resembles the sound it denotes

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Informal diction define

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slang, informal. ex: Hazels tells laverne poem

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Speaker

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Voice used by an author to tell a story or speak a poem

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Anagrams examples:

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read

dare

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Alliteration define

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repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words

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Script

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Written text of a play that includes dialogue between characters, stage directions, and often other expository info.

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Paraphrase define

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prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language

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foil define

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helps to reveal BY CONTRAST the distinctive qualities of another character

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Italian Sonnet

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Sonnet divided into an octave

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Lyric define

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brief, poem that expresses personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker

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convention

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characteristic of a literary genre that is understood and accepted by the audiences because it has come, through usage and time, to be recognized as a family technique

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Stress

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Emphasis or accent given a syllable in a pronunciation

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Assonance define

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repetition of same vowel sound in nearby words

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Apostrophe define

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adress to either someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to someone nonhuman that cannot comprehend

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Theme define

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central idea or meaning

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Plays

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general term for a work of dramatic literature

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Narrative poem define

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poem that tells a story

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English Sonnet

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Organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme

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Figures of speech define

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a way of saying one thing in terms of something else

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Caesura

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Pause within a line of poetry that contributes to the rhythm of the line

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Conflict

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struggle within the plot between opposing forces

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Anagrams define

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words made from letters of other words

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Scansion

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Process of measuring stresses in a line of a verse in order to determine the metrical pattern of a line

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Iambic Pentameter

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Metrical pattern in poetry that consists of five iambic feet per line

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Theme

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central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work

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Persona define

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speaker created by the poet

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conventional symbol example:

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christian cross, star of david

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Villanelle

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Type of fixed-form poetry consisting of nineteen lines of any length divided into stanzas; five tercets and a concluding quatrain

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End-stopped line

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Poetic line that has a pause at the end

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Paradox define

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statement that initially appears to be self-contradictory but that, on closer inspection, turns out to make sense

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Verbal irony define

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consists of a person saying one things but meaning the opposite

46
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recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds

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rhythm

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Satire define

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example of literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in an effort to expose or correct it

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Exact rhymes define

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have same stressed vowel sounds as well as any sounds that follow the vowel

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Ambiguity define

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allows for two or more simultaneous interpretations of a word, a phrase, an action, or a situation, all of which can be supported by the context of a work

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Acts

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major division in the action of the play

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Connotative meanings are usually what?

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Public meanings

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places more emphasis on one syllable than another

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stress

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Tone define

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writers attitude towards the subject, the mood created by all the elements in the poem

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Epic define

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long narrative poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and important events

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Playwrights

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a writer who makes plays

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Open form

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Does not form to establish patterns of meter, rhyme, and stanza

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Syntax define

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ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns

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Denotations define

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literal, dictionary meanings of a word

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Diction define

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writers choice of words

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Metaphor compares two things without using what?

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Like or as

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Couplet

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that usually rhyme and have the same meter

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Meyer draws comparison to ____ and ____

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music

poetry

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One-act play

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play that takes place in a single location and unfolds as one continuous action (Action is sharply focused)

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Hyberbole/Overstatment define

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add emphasis without intending to be literally true

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Falling Action

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diminishing tensions and the resolution of the plot’s conflict and complications

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Foot

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Metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured (usually consists of 1 stressed and 1 or 2 unstressed syllables

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Stanza

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In poetry, refers to a group of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Describes the pattern of end rhymes (designate each line with a letter)

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Line

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Sequence of words printed as a separate entity on the page

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Consonance define

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identical consonant sound preceded by a different vowel sound

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Image define

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language that addresses the senses

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Major elements of setting are what?

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Time, place, and social environment that frame the character

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Dialect define

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spoken by definable groups of people from a particular geographic region, economic group, or social class. Type of informal diction

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Verse define

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lines composed in a measured rhythmical pattern, which are often, but not always rhymed

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most common images in poetry are ____

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visual

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Meter

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When a rhythmic pattern of stresses recurs in a poem

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End rhyme define

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rhyme comes at the ends of lines

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Explication define

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detailed explanation of a passage of poetry or prose

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Simile compares two things using what?

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Like or as

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Conventional symbols define

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widely recognized by a society or culture, well-defined within society

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Run-on line

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When one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning

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Formal diction define

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dignified, impersonal, and elevated use of language

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Poets rely on widely shared _____ rather than on distinctive response that an individual might have to a word

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associations

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Literary Symbol define

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traditional, conventional, or public meanings, but may also be established internally by total context of the work in which it appears- not well-defined

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Pyramidal Pattern

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divide plot into three essential parts (rising action, climax, falling action)

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Sonnet

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Fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter

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Irony define

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device that reveals a reality different from what appears to be true

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Stage Directions

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playwright’s written instructions about how actors in a play are to move and behave

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Fixed form

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Poem that may be categorized by the patterns of its lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas

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types of papers most frequently assigned in literature classes are:

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explication, analysts, and comparison/contrast

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Rhyme define

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way of creating sound patterns

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Dialogue

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verbal exchanges between characters

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Synecdoche define

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figure of speech in which part of something is used to signify the whole

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Drama

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refers to a single play, a group of plays, or to all plays

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Tercet

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Three-line stanza ex: AAA

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Quatrain

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Four-line stanza. Most common stanzaic form in English language

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Point of view define

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refers to who tells us the story and how it is told

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Crisis

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turning point in action of a story that has a powerful effect on the protagonist

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Situational irony define

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incongruity between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

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Internal rhyme define

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MIDDLE OF LINE, places at least one of the rhymed words within the line

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narrator define

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teller of the story

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