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1
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The recurrence of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby stressed syllables

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Alliteration

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2
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A reference within a work of literature to something outside it.

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Allusion

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3
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Opponent of the main character.

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Antagonist

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4
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A short, pithy sentence, a concise statement or principle

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Aphorism

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5
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The addressing of some nonpersonal (or absent) object as if it were able to reply

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Apostrophe

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6
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A short, simple narrative song.

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Ballad

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7
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An account of someone’s life written by someone else.

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Biography

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8
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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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9
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Major pauses within lines

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Caesura

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10
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Representations of persons in literature.

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Character

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11
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Drama that ends happily.

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Comedy

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12
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striking and, often, sustained figurative comparison.

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Conceit

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13
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A serious disagreement or argument

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Conflict

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14
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A pair of rhymed lines.

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Couplet

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15
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A particular form of language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group

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Dialect

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16
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Artificially selected and refined lan- guage once considered essential to poetic expres- sion.

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Diction

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17
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A story consisting of action and dialogue designed for stage performance.

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Drama

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18
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A poem consisting of a speech by a character (who is not the author) addressing an audience at a critical moment in his life.

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Dramatic monologue

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19
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NOT IN THE BOOK FOR GOD SAKE

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Elegiac poetry

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20
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Originally any poem of solemn meditation. Now it is a formal poem lamenting the death of a partic- ular person or meditating on the subject of death itself.

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Elegy

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21
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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line

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Enjambment

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22
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A story with a literal and an implied level of meaning.

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Allegory

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23
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A long, stylized narrative poem celebrating the deeds of a national or ethnic hero.

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Epic

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24
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NOT IN THE BOOK DEAR GOD

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Extended Metaphor

25
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A genre of imaginative fiction involving magic and adventure

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Fantasy

26
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ITS NOT IN THE BOOK SWEET CHRIST WHY IS IT NOT IN THE BOOK

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Figurative Language

27
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characteristically impersonal, compressed, dramatic (in use of dialogue and absence of transitions), rit- ualistic in effect (through the use of various devices and repetition), and simple in stanza form.

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Folk ballad

28
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NOT. IN. THE. BOOK.

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Folk tale

29
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Be a warning of indication of (a future event)

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Foreshadowing

30
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MY GOD NOTHING IS IN THE BOOK

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Frame story

31
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A figure of thought that contrasts appearance and reality.

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Irony

32
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A metaphoric compound of two words

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Kenning

33
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WHY ARENT THEY IN THE BOOK

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Literary ballad

34
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NOPE.

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Lyrical poetry

35
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JESUS

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Metaphysical conceit

36
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The regular recurrence of accented syllables in a line of poetry.

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Meter

37
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Broadly, the expression of one thing in terms of another.

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Metaphor

38
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NOT IN THE BOOKKKKKK

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Narrative poetry

39
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A long, highly stylized lyric poem written in a complex stanza on a serious theme and often for a specific occasion.

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Ode

40
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The giving of personal character- istics to something that is not a person.

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Personification

41
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NOPE NOPE

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Poetic justice

42
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The chief or main character

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Protagonist

43
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A four-line stanza, one of the most common stanza forms in English poetry.

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Quatrain

44
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The attempt in fiction to create an illusion of actuality by the use of seemingly random detail or by the inclusion of the ordinary or unpleasant in life.

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Realism

45
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A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song

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Refrain

46
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Identical sound in corresponding words or phrases.

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Rhyme

47
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A more or less regular recurrence of stressed syllables in written or spoken utterance.

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Rhythm

48
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A reaction against the cultural climate and values of neoclassicism.

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Romanticism

49
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Corrective ridicule in literature, or a work that
is designed to correct an evil by means of ridicule.

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Satire

50
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SCOP IT JESUS

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Scop

51
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A stated comparison of two things using a linking word or phrase

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Simile

52
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A lyric poem of fourteen iambic-pentameter lines conventionally rhyming according to one of two patterns.

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Sonnet

53
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Literary style in which a characters thoughts, feelings and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue

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Stream of Consciousness

54
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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

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Symbolism

55
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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language

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Syntax

56
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A recurring or emerging idea in a work of literature.

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Theme

57
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The attitude of a work toward its subject.

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Tone

58
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Drama that ends unhappily

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Tragedy

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