APL Vocab Flashcards
(183 cards)
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A major unit of action in a a drama or play. Each is divided into scenes.
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Act
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A story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea about life ; Often have a strong moral or lesson
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Allegory
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A reference to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. They are often indirect or brief references to well known characters or events
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Allussion
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Repition of constant sounds at the begginning of sounds
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Alliteration
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A comparision of two or more like objects
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Analogy
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A brief account of an incident or event that is intended to entertain or make a point
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Anecdote
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A character who decieves, frustrates or whom works against the main character
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Antagonist
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Is used to let the audience know what a character is about to do or what he or she is thinking
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Aside
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Repition of vowel sounds withing a line of poetry
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Assonance
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The particular group of readers or viewers that the author is addressing
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Audience
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The writer of a book, article or other text
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Author
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Nonfiction, The person tells/writes about their story of his or her life
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Autobiography
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A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited
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Ballad
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The story of a persons life that is written by someone else
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Biography
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter
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Blank verse
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A pause or a sudden break in a line of poetry
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Caesura
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Two events are related when one event brings about or causes the other.
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Cause and Effect
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A person who is responible for the thoughts and actions within a story, poem, or other literature
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Character
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A picture or imitation of a persons habit physical apperance or mannerisims exaturated in a comic or absurd way
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Caricature
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A character who serves as a contrast or conflict to another character
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Flat
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A character whoose actions are inspring or noble. Often the main character
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Hero/Heroine
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The characters who are centeral to the plot of a story
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Main Character
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A less important character who interacts with the main character ; Helps move the plot along
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Minor character
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All of the techniques that writers use to create characters
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Characterization
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A characters personality.
Character trait
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The author directly states a characters traits or make direct comments about a characters name.
Direct Characterization
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A character who changes throughout the story
Dynamic character
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A character about whom little info is provided
Flat Character
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The author does not directly state a characters traits. Instead the author draws conclusions and discover a character traits based upon clues provided by the author
Indirect Characters
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A character who is folly described by the author.
Round Character
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A character who does not change or who changes very little in the course of a story
Static Character
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The order in which events happen in time
Chonological Order
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Process of pausing occasionaly in a story to review what he or she understands
Clarifying
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An overused expression or a saying that is no longer considered original
Cliche
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A dramtic work that is light and often humerous in tone and usually ends happily with a peaceful resolution of the main conflict
Comedy
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The process of identifying similarities
Comparison
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A type of poetry that uses its physical or visual form to present its message
Concrete Poetry
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The tension or problem in the story; a struglle between opposing forces.
Conflict
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The dominat or most important conflict in the story
Centeral conflict
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Problem or struglle the exists b/w the main character and an outside force
External conflict
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The problem or struggle that takes place in the main characters mind
Internal conflict
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A readers or process or relating the content of a literary work to his or her own konowledge
Connecting
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The idea and feeling associated with a word as opposed to its dictionary, definition, or denotation
Connotation
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The repition of constant sounds anywhere within a line of poetry.
Consanance
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Hiints or suggestion that may be surrounded unfamiliar words or phrases and clarify their meaning
Context Clues
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The process of pointing out differences b/w things
Contrast
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A rhymes pair of lines in a poem.
Couplet
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The opposite of connotation in that it is the exact or dictionary meaning of a word
Deontation
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See plot
Denouement
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A form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people
Dialect
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The conversation b/w characters in a drama or narrative.
Dialouge
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Form of literature to be performed by actors befroe an audience.
Drama
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Combining several pieces of info to make an inference
Drawing Conclusions
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Literray device that is used when a character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings,
Dramatic Monolouge
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typle of literature defind as a song or poem that express sorrow or lamentation, usually for one that has died
Elegy
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Incomplete syntax at the end of a line, the meaning running over into the next line w/o terminal punctuation
Enjambment
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Short porm or verse that seeks to ridicule a thought or even, usually with witticism or sarcassam
Epigram
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See conflict
External conflict
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Brief tale that teaches a lesson about human nature often feature animal as characters
Fable
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A statement that can be prooved. a statement that reflects the writers or speakers belief
Fact and opinion
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See plot
Falling action
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Work of literature that contains at least one fantasy or unreal element
Fantasy
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See character
Foil
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Traditions, customs and stories that passed down within a culture.
Folklore
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simple story that has been passed from one generation by word of mouth.
Floktales
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A unit of meter within a line of poetry
Foot
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When the writer provides clues or hints that suggest or predict future event in a story
Foreshadowing
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Poetry w/o regular patterns of rhyme often used to capture the sounds and rythms of ordinary speech
free verse
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a broad statement about an entire group
gernalization
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A typle or category of literature.;fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama
Genre
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A greek word meaning original pattern or model
Archtypes
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Traditional forms of japanese poetry, usually dealing with nature
Haiku
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see character
Hero or heroine
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a couplet consisting of two successive ryhimg lines that contain a complete thought
Hero couplet or closed couplet
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Fiction that explored a past time preiod and may contain references to actual people and events of the past
Historical Fiction
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Fiction that contains mysterioes and often supernatural events to create a sence of terror
Horror fiction
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The quality that provokes laughter or amusement.
Humor
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A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerate for emphasis or humerous effect
Hyperbole
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See meter
Iambic meter
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A phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say
Idiom
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The use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses.
Imagery
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Is a logical guess bases on evidence in the text
inference
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SEe conflict
Internal conflict
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Use of structers of phrases in simialr in order to draw the attention
anthesis
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identifies error in the timline
Acronims
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A meeting in which one person asks another about personal matters, professional matters or both
Interview
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Contrast b/w what is expected and what actually exists or happen.
Irony
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Occurs when the speaker means somethings totaly different than what he or she is saying
Verbal Irony
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Occurs when facts are not known to the characters in a work of literature, but are known by the audience
Dramtaic Irony
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Suggests that some unknown force brings about dire and dreadfull events
Cosmic Irony
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The difference b/w what is expected to happen and the way events actually work out
Irony of Situation
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A story handed down fromt he past about a sepcific person or heroic accomplishment
Legend
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Short humerous poem composed of five lines that usually has the rhyme scheme aabba, created by two rhyming couplets followed by a fifth line that rhymes with the first couplet.
Limerick
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The actual meaning of a word pr phrase
Literal Meaning
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A song like poem written mainly to express the feelings or emotions of a single speaker
Lyric Poetry
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See character
Main Character
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The most important point that a writer wishes to express
Main Idea
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A specific type of autobiography, a memoir is about the authors personal experience. Dosnt cover the authors entire life
Memoir
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Type of figurative language in which a comparison is made b/w two things that are essintially unalike but may have one quality in common
Metaphor
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The regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables.
Meter
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X /
iamb
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/ X
Trochee
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X X /
Anapest
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/ X X
dactyl
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/ /
Spondee
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X X
Pyrric
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One foot per line
Monometer
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Two feet per line
Dimeter
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three feet per line
Trimeter
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four feet per line
tetrameter
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five feet per line
pentameter
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six feet per line
hexameter
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seven feet per line
heptameter
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eight feet per line
octameter
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the metaphorical substituion of one word or phrase for another related word or phrase
Metonymy
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A mood or atmosphere is that feeling that a literary work coneys to readers.
Mood
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A lesson that a story teaches
Moral
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A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work of literature. good and evil
Motif
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Distinctive system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition in which two words have only their fianal consonant sounds
Slant rhyme
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Rhyme found within a line of poetry
Internal rhyme
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Words that when written apear to rhyme, but even spoken do not
Eye rhyme
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Words that rhyme at the end of a verse or line
End or terminal rhymes
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Traditional story that atempts to explain how the world was created or why the world is the way it is.stories passed on from generation to generation.
Myth
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Any writing that tells a story
Narrative
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Poetry that tells a story
Narrative Poem
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One who tells the story
Narrator
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One who gives his or her own understanding of a story, instead of the explanation and interpretation the author wishes to obtain
Unreliable Narrator
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Writing that is true
Nonfiction
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Work of fiction that is longer and more complex then a short storyu
Novel
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A lyric poem of some length, usually of serious or meditative nature and havng an elevated style and formal structure
Ode
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the use of words whose sound suggest their meaning
Onomatopoeia
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Your own beleifs
Opinion
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Stories of peoples lives related by word of mouth.
Oral History
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A form of figurative language combining contradictory words or idead
Oxymoron
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A statement that seems to contradict itself but is nevertheles true
Paradox
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the use of similar grammatical constructions to express ideas that are related or equal in importance
Parallelism
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the restatement of a text by readers in their own words or in another form
Paraphasing
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A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of anauthors work for comic effect
Parody
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Figure of speech where animals, ideas or inanimate objects given human characteristics
Personification
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Writing is meant to sway readers feelings beliefs or actions
Persuasion
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the writers attitude about his or her on the subjectq
Tone
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A dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character or characters who are involved historically or socially significant events
Tradgedy
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statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said; opposite of hyperbole. this is usually used for a humerous effect
understatement
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feeling of growing tension and excitement.
suspense
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using something specific to stand for something else. ecspecially an idea
symbolisym
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literary technique in which the whole is represented by naming on of its parts
Synecdote
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humerously exaggerated story about impossible events
tall tale
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common thread or repeated idea that is incorporated throughout a literary work
theme
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the pattern of end rhyme used in a poem matching lowercase letters
rhyme scheme
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refers to the pattern of flow of sounds created by the arrangement or stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
rythm
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the use of praise to mock someone or somethings the use of mockery or verbal irony
sarcasam
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distinctive system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition in which words have only their final consonant sounds and no preceeding vowel or consonant sounds in common
slant rhyme
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rhyme found in a line of poetry
internal rhyme
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words that when written appear to rhyme but even spoken do not
eye rhyme
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words that rhyme at the end of a verse line
end or terminal rhymes
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aiterary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society
satire
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the process of searching through writing for a particular fact or piece of info
scanning
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a section in a play presenting events that occur in one place at one time
scene
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prose writing in which a writer explores unexpected possibilities of the past or the future by using scientific data and theories as well as his or her imagination
Science fiction
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a secondary source presents info complied from or based on other sources
secondary source
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words and phrases that help readers see hear taste feel or smell what the author is describing
sensory details
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the order in which events occur or in which ideas are presented
sequence
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the time place details and circumstances in which a story occurs
setting
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brief work of fiction that generally focus on one or two main characters who face a single problem or conflict
short story
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makes a comparison between teo otherwise unlike objects or ideas by connect them with the words like and as
simile
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a speech delivered byy a character who is alone on the stage
soliloquy
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poetic style yhat uses a system of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen line
sonnet
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the voice that talks to the reader
speaker
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a talk given in public
speech
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the instructions to the actor director and stage crew in the script of the plsy
stage directions
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a grouping of two ro more lines within a poem
stanza
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two line stanza
couplet
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three line stanza
triplet or tercet
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four line stanza
quatrain
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five line stanza
cinquain or quintet
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six line stanza
sestet or sextet
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seven line stanza
septet
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eight line stanza
octave
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fourteen line stanza
sonnet
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a broad generalization or an oversimplified view that disregards individual differences
stereotype
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a visual organizer that helps a reader understand a work of literature by tracking setting characters events and conflicts
story mapping
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how a writer says something, word choice length tone
style
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the process of briefly recounting the ma ideas of a piece of writing in a persons own words
summarizing
