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Literary Elements Vocab Flashcards

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The _______ is the series of events which take place after the climax.

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Falling action

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A character in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison.

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Foil

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A very short tale told by a character in a literary work.

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Anecdote

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In literature generally, a major work dealing with an important theme.

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Epic

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A word or group of words in a literary work which appeal to one or more of the senses: sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell. The use of _______ serves to intensify the impact of the work.

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Imagery

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The repetition of VOWEL sounds in a literary work, especially in a poem.

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Assonance

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A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

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Blank verse

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A pleasant combination of sounds.

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Euphony

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A story in poetic form; often about tragic love and usually sung.

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Ballad

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Seize the day

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Carpe diem

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A literary type or form.

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Genre

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Am unpleasant combination of sounds.

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Cacophony

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The story of a person’s life written by someone other ths the subject of the work.

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Biography

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A person or anything presented as a person.

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Character

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The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work.

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Characterization

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A story illustrating an idea or moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings.

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Allegory

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A movement or tendency in art, music, and literature to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece or Rome. (Differs from Romanticism no emotional impact)

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Classicism

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A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work BAD GUY

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Antagonist

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A statement which can contain 2 or more meanings

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Ambiguity

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The decisive moment in a drama, the climax is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads.

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Climax

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A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. Modern funny- Shakespearean end well

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Comedy

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In the plot of a drama, ______ occurs when the protagonist is opposed by some person or force in the play.

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Conflict

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A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman.

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Apostrophe

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A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. 1 CHARACTER OR THEME 2 WORKS

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Allusion

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The story of a persons life written by himself or herself.

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Autobiography

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Also called “resolution”. Is the point in a drama to which the entire play has been leading. It is the logical outcome.

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Conclusion

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A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play.

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Aside

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The scene in a tragedy which includes the death or moral destruction of the protagonist.

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Catastrophe

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An authors choice of words. Since words have specific meanings, and since one’s choice of words can affect feelings, a writer’s choice of words can have a great impact in a literary work.

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Diction

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The repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry.

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Consonance

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It is that part of a drama which follows the climax and leads to the resolution.

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Denouement

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In drama, a conversation between characters.

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Dialogue

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A brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation.

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Aphorism

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A judgement based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement.

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Inference

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33
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In literature, a way of saying one thing and meaning something else.

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Figurative language

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Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specifics metrical pattern.

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Free Verse

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34
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Literature designed explicitly to instruct.

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Didactic literature

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35
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A lyric poem lamenting death.

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Elegy

35
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A figure of speech in which an overstatement or EXAGGERATION occurs.

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Hyperbole

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The _______ of a word is it’s dictionary definition.

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Denotation

39
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A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work.

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Epigraph

40
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Used for poetic effect, a repetition of the INITIAL sounds of several words in a group. I have Stood Still and Stopped the Sound

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Alliteration

40
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An example of ________ that states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect.

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Figure of Speech

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In drama, a method used to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come.

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Foreshadowing

42
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The ______ of a word is it’s emotional content.

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Connotation

43
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In literature, a word of phrase preceding or following a name which serves to describe the character.

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Epithet

45
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A stanza of TWO lines usually RHYMING.

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Couplet

47
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A mild word of phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, or offensive.

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Euphemism

48
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A reference to an event which took place prior to the beginning of a story or play.

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Flashback

49
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In drama, the presentation of essential information regarding what has occurred prior to the beginning of the play.

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Exposition

50
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A brief tale designed to illustrate a moral lesson.

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Fable

51
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In literature, the occurrence of a single speaker saying something to a silent audience.

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Dramatic Monologue

61
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In literature, a way of saying one thing and meaning something else.

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Figurative Language

62
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The result of an action is the reverse of what the actor expected.

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Irony

63
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A figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities WITHOUT the use of like or as

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which a word represents something else which it suggests.

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Metonymy

65
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The atmosphere or feeling created by a literary work.

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Mood

66
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An unverifiable story based on a religious belief.

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Myth

67
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A poem which tells a story.

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Narrative Poem

68
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A fictional prose work of substantial length.

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Novel

69
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A poem in praise of something divine or expressing some noble idea.

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Ode

70
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A literary device wherein the sound of a word echoes the sound it represents. Knock roar splash boom

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Onomatopoeia

71
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A combination of contradictory terms. Loving hate; jumbo shrimp

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Oxymoron

72
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A brief story, told or written in order to teach a moral lesson.

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Parable

73
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A situation or a statement that seems to contradict itself, but I closer comparison, does not.

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Paradox

74
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A repetition of sentences using the same structure.

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Parallel Structure

75
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A literary work that imitates the style of another literary work.

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Parody

76
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A fallacy of reason in suggesting the nonhuman phenomena act from human feelings.

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Pathetic Fallacy

77
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A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics.

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Personification

78
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The structure of a story.

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Plot

79
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A piece of literature contains a speaker who is speaking either in the first person, telling things from his or her own perspective, or in the 3rd person, telling things from the perspective of an onlooker.

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Point of View

80
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The hero or central character of a literary work.

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Protagonist

81
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A play on words wherein a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time.

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Pun

82
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A four-line stanza which may be rhymed or unrhymed.

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Quatrain

83
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The part of a story or drama which occurs after the climax and which establishes a new norm, a new state of affairs-the way things are going to be from then on.

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Resolution

84
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In poetry, a pattern of repeated sounds
End
Internal
Eye 
Half
Final consonants
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Rhyme

85
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Recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal intervals, similar to meter.

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Rhythm

86
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The part of a drama which begins with the exposition and sets the stage for the climax.

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Rising Action

87
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A piece of literature designed to ridicule the subject of the work.

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Satire

88
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The time and place in which a story unfolds.

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Setting

89
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A short fictional narrative.

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Short story

90
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A figure of speech which takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found and which uses the words “like” or “as”.

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Simile

91
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In drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.

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Soliloquy

92
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A lyric poem of fourteen lines whose rhyme scheme is fixed.

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Sonnet

93
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A major subdivision in a poem.

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Stanza

94
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An author’s method of treating a character so that the character is immediately identified with a group.

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Stereotype

95
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Many things enter into the ______ of a work: the authors use of figurative language, diction, sound affects and other literary devices.

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Style

96
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________ in fiction results primarily rim two factors: the reader’s identification with concern for the welfare of a convincing and sympathetic character, and the anticipation of violence.

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Suspense

97
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A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

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Symbolism

98
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An ingredient of a literary work which gives the work unity.

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Theme

99
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_____ expresses the author’s attitude toward his or her subject.

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Tone

100
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A type of drama which is pre-eminently the story of one person, the hero. The story leads up to the death or moral destruction of the protagonist.

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Tragedy

101
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A statement which lessens or minimizes the importance of what is meant.

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Understatement

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