Vocabulary Words

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Writing with a double meaning-everything is symbolic (animal farm)

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Allegory

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. (Sally sells stamps)

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Alliteration

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Implied or indirect reference to something

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Allusion

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Adversary or opposite of the hero (protagonist)

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Antagonist

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An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning. (Emotional meaning)

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Connotation

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Same vowel sounds in the words next to each other

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Assonance

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(Also called mood): The emotional feelings inspired by a work

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Atmosphere

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Verse without rhyme But has meter

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Blank Verse

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Description of character (direct or indirect)

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Characterization

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The most intense, exciting, or important point of something

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Climax

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a struggle between two forces, but these forces can be either internal (feelings) or external (physical).

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Conflict

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basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word

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Denotation

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Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit.

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Couplets

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End if the story where everything is resolved

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Denouement

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Single character speaks for an extended time in a dramatic situation

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Dramatic Monologue

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Mournful poem or a funeral song

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Elegy

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Words at the end of the line rhyme.

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End Rhyme

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Long poem or story about a hero

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Epic

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A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a message

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Fable

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Language that contains figurative speech such as metaphor

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Figurative Language

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Story told by and chiefly about narrator

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First person point of view

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Hinting at what may happen in the future

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Foreshadowing

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Verse with no pattern or rhyme

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Free verse

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Category of literature, art or entertainment

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Genre

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Exaggerated statement

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Hyperbole

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5 iambs (1 stressed & 1 unstressed syllable = 10 syllables)

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Iambic Pentameter

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Mental images created by words

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Imagery

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Rhyme in the middle of a line or the middle of the 2 consecutive lines, or the end of one line and the middle of the next

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Internal Rhyme

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Situational: the opposite of what is expected Dramatic: reader knows something the character doesn't Verbal: sarcasm

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Irony

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Language that means exactly what it says

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Literal Language

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Relating to poetry that often has musical quality

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Lyric

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Comparison where one thing IS the other

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Metaphor

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Rhyme of a piece of poetry

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Meter

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Speech performed by one actor

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Monologue

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Emotions felt by the READER

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Mood

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Reoccurring subject, object, idea

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Motif

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Traditional or legendary story

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Myth

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle, boom,crack)

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Onomatopoeia

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Statement that is contradictory but perhaps true

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Paradox

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Imitation of style with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

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Parody

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Attribution of human characteristics to something non-human

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Personification

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The main story(line)

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Plot

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Written or spoken language in its normal form, (NOT POETRY)

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Prose

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Main character

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Protagonist

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Joke exploiting different possible meaning of a word

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Pun

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A stanza of 4 lines

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Quatrain

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a question that is not supposed to be answered

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Rhetorical Question

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Saying one thing but meaning another

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Sarcasm

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Use of humor, irony, ridicule used to expose people's stupidity

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Satire

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images that appeal to any of the five senses

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Sensory image

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of 2 different things, using like or as

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Simile

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An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when he is alone or thinks he is alone

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Soliloquy

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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

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Sonnet

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A group of lines in a poem

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Stanza

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A subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work.

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Subplot

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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.

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Symbolism

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Topic or the lesson to be taken from a story

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Theme

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Authors opinion

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Tone

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Quality that makes an author unique

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Voice

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Word choice

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Diction

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Ordering old words (sentence structure)

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Syntax