Literature

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Alliteration

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The use of a repeated consonant sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words.

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Allegory

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A story with underlying symbols that really represent something else. A character can be allegorical.

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Allusion

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An indirect reference to something or someone, usually literary.

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Anachronism

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Placing a person or object in an inappropriate historical situation. It can be deliberate or unintentional.

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Analogy

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A comparison used to explain something else

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Anecdote

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A short narrative, story, or tale.

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Antagonist

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The major character opposing the protagonist. Usually the villain.

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Anthropomorphism

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Assigning human attributes, such as emotions or physical characteristics, to nonhuman things. Often used for attributing human characteristics to animals. Similar to personification except anthropomorphism is for animals personification is for everything.

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Diction

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Is the authors choice of word and sentence structure, talking into account correctness, clearness, and effectiveness. Four levels of diction: formal, informal, colloquial, and slang

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Elegy

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A mournful and melon holy poem or song, usually to pay tribute to a deceased person.

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Emphasis

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Special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out

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Fable

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A story that has a moral, usually involving animals as the main characters

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Figurative language

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Language characterized by figures of speech such as metaphors and similes such as well elaborate expression through imagery

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Hyperbole

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A deliberate exaggeration

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Imagery

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Imagery is an author’s use of descriptive and figurative language used to create a picture in the reader’s mind’s eyes

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Indirect dialogue

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Language that communicates what was expressed in the dialogue, without using a direct quotation

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Irony

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An expression of meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning

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Meaning

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Something that one wishes to convey, especially by language

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Metaphor

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A metaphor is a comparison like a simile, but it doesn’t she the words “like” or “as”. It’s subtler.

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Meter

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The rhythm of a poem. The most common meter is iambic

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Narrative

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A literary representation of an event or story (the text itself)

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Onomatopoeia

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A word intended to simulate the actual sound of the thing or action it described

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Oxymoron

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A phrase in which the words are contradictory

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Paean

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An expression of joyful praise

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Parable

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A story that has a moral. The story of the Good Samaritan is a famous parable from the bible

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Paradox

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This is a phrase that appears to be contradictory but that actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction

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Parallelism

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The repetition of sounds, meanings, or structures to create a certain style

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Parody

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A literary work in which the style of an author is imitated for comic effect or ridicule

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Pastoral

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A work that deals with the lives of people, especially shepherds, in the country or in nature (as opposed to city)

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Pathos

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Something that evokes a feeling of pity or sympathy. Think of the word “pathetic”. A pathetic person adds an element of pathos to a story.

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Personification

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Assigning human attributes to something nonhuman

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Perspective

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The view meant from which the narrator or character sees things

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Point of view

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The vantage point from which a story is presented to a reader. First and third are most common.

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Protagonist

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The main character, usually a hero

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Rhyme scheme

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The way that a poem’s rhymes are arranged. This is indicated by marking each like with a letter of the alphabet

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Satire

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Ridicule of a subject

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Simile

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A simile is a comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”

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Stanza

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The divisions in a poem, like a paragraph in a prose

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Structure

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The framework of a work of literature; the organization or overall design; often provides clues to character and action

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Style

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The author’s unique manner of expression; the author’s voice

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Syntax

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The ordering of words into meaningful patterns such as phrases, clauses, and sentences; poets often manipulate syntax, changing order to draw attention to words or phrases

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Theme

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The central meaning or dominant idea in a literary work; theme provides a unifying point around which the plot, characters, setting, point of view, symbols are organized

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Tone

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Style or manner of expression