Literary Terms

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Parallelism

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Repetition of words phrases or sentences that have the same grammatical structure or state a similar idea

Question 1

Symbolism

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Person place thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well

Question 2

Alliteration

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Repetition of the same or very similar consonant

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Foil

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Character who is used as a contrast to another character

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Anecdote

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Very brief encounter up an incident of us from

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Irony

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Contrast or discrepancy betweenexpectation and reality

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Situational irony

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Occurs when there is a contrast between what would seem appropriate

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Upon

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Play on the multiple meaning words or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings

Question 8

Satire

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Type of writing that ridicules something a person a group of people humanity at large and attitude or failing of a social institution in order to reveal a

Question 9

Static character

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One who does not change much in the story

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Dynamic character

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Changes as a result of the stories events

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denotation

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Dictionary definition

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Iambic pentameter

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Line of a poetry that come canes five iambs

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Inference

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The art or process of inferring

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Foreshadowing

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The use of clues to hint events that will occur later in a plot

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Verbal irony

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A writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different

Question 16

Allusion

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Reference to a statement person place or event from literature