FINAL- Lit Terms

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonants

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Allegory

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Characters represent qualities or ideas (Sherif Good or outlaw Bad)

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Allusion

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A reference to something or someone literary

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Antagonist

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The major character that opposes the main character.

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Archetype

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A character who represents a certain type of people

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Atmosphere

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The overall feel of a work

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Blank verse

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Un-rhymed lines of poetry usually in iambic pentameter

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Characterization

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The means by which an author establishes character.

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Climax

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The point at which the action of the story tips.

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Conflict

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The elements that create a plot internal or external

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Contrast

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To explain how two things are different

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Couplets

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A pair of rhyming lines and a poem off set from the rest of the poem

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Denouement

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The resolution of the conflict

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Dramatic Monologue

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A poem with a fictional narrator, addressed to someone whose identity the reader knows

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Elegy

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A poem mourning the dead

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End rhyme

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Rhyming words that are at the ends of their lines/normal rhyme

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Epic

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A long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure

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Fable

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A story that illustrates a moral, often using animals

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Figurative language

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Language that does not mean exactly what it says

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First person point of view

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The writer writes as their self using “I”

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Foreshadowing

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The author uses clues to hint to stuff that might happen

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Free verse

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Poetry no meter or rhythm

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Genre

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I kind of style usually art or literature

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Hyperbole

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A Huge exaggeration

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Iambic pentameter

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Ten syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed

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Imagery

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The use of description that helps the reader imagine how something looks sounds or feels

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Internal rhyme

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A rhyme that occurs within one line

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Irony

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Language that conveys a certain idea by saying opposite

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Literal language

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Language that means exactly what it says

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Lyric

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Expresses the poets feelings, like music

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Metaphor

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A comparison that doesn't use like/as

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Meter

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The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllable's

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Monologue

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A long speech by one character

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Mood

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The emotional atmosphere at a given piece of writing

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Motif

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The thing that occurs in work

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Myth

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A legend that embodies the believes of people and offers an exclamation for natural and social phenomenon

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like a thing

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Paradox

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Seeming contradiction (best of worst of times)

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Personification

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Getting a nonliving thing living qualities

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Plot

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The action of the story

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Prose

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Organized into paragraphs and sentences

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Protagonist

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The main character of the novel

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Pun

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A play on words

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Quatrain

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A four line stanza

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Rhetorical question

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The question on expected with an answer

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Sarcasm

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Language that conveys a certain idea............

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Satire

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A word that makes fun of something/one

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Sensory imagery

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Imagery that has to do with something you hear

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Simile

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A comparison using like/as

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Soliloquy

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A monologue in which a character expresses thought

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Sonnet

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A 14 line poem in iambic pentameter

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Stanza

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A section of poetry

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Sub plot

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A line of action second to the main story

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Symbolism

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Something that represents another

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Theme

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The central idea of a work

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Tone

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The authors attitude toward their subject

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Metonymy

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The substitution of an attribute or addition for the thing meant

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is mean to represent the whole or vice a versa

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Apostrophe

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In literature, apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by "O" A writer or speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses and imaginary character in his speech

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Assonance/dissonance

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Assonance takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel what start with different consonant sounds. Dissonance is a tension or clash resulting from a combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements.

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Aspect

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A particular part or feature of something

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Fallacy

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A fallacy is and erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical connection. There are many fallacy examples that we can find in everyday conversations

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Bombast

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Boastful language

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Doggerel

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Verse or words that are badly written or expressed

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Foot

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A foot is a unit of meter, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllable's

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Decorum

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Manners

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Lampoon

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A speech or text criticizing someone or something in this way

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Plaint

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A complement; a lamentation

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Truism

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A statement that is always a true says nothing new or interesting

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Zeugma

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A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses or two to others of which it semantically suits only one

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Lyricism

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The quality or state of being melodious; melodiousness

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Homily

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A religious discourse that is intended primarily for the spiritual edification rather then doctrinal instruction; a sermon

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Parallel structure

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Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas are the same level of importance. This can happen at the word, phrase, or clause level. The usual way to join parallel structures is with the use of coordinating conjunctions such as "and" or "or"