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| the repetition of a constanant sound the beginning of nearby words |
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| the repetiton of a vowel sounds in nearby words |
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| the repetition of a constant sound within nearby words |
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| the use of words which mimic sounds they describe |
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| the repititon on two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem |
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| ryhme that occurs at the end of lines |
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| the pattern of end ryhmes |
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| refers to the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| the regular pattern or stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| a character, action or situation that is a prototype or pattern of human life; a situation, setting, or charcter that occurs over and over again in literature |
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| people or animal who take part in the action of a literary work |
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| word choice intended to convey a certain effect |
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| the dictonary meaning of a word |
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| the feelings and attitudes associated with a word |
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| a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event |
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| hints or clues that suggest future action |
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| the use of sensory details to describe one thing in terms of another |
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| the overall feeling created by an author's choice of words |
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| the sequnce of events in which a story takes place |
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| the perspective form which the story is told |
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| the first person point of view |
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| the story is told from a character who narrates his or her own experinces directly |
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| limited 3rd person point of view |
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| the story is told from the viewpoint of one character who can see only part of the whole story |
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| the author is outside of the story and presents the thought of all the characters involved |
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| the framework or organization of a literary selection |
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| techniques used by the author to keep readers intrested in the story and un what will happen next |
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| message that the author intends to comminicate by telling the story. often universal thruths |
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| the writters or speakers attitude toward a subject, character, or audience; conveyed through authors choice of words and detail |
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| authors distictive style or manner of expression |
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| central character of the story |
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| broad generalization or an oversimplified view that disregaurds individual diffrences; can lead to unfair judgements |
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| a character with a single important trait |
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| a complex character with sevral traits |
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| character who changes in response to action through which they pass |
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| methods that readers use to communicate info bout characters to readers |
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| change or movement in literary paice resulting from epiphany, realiztaion or onsight gained by the speaker, character, or reader |
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| environment which story takes place |
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| interupts balance& harmony of situation & introduces conflict |
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| tense rises towards climax |
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| the problem; central source of tension & drama in story |
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| tension between character & some outside force, like another character, cociety, fate, or nature |
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| action comes to highest point of dramtic conflict; turning point |
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| part of stroy follwed climax & leads to resolution |
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| refrence to mythological, literary, or historical, person, place, or thing |
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| point-by-point comparison between 2 dissimilar things in order to clarify less familiar of the 2 |
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| breif account of intrestinng incident or event that usually is intended |
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| form of langue that is spoken in a particular place by particular people |
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| actual words that characters speak |
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| exagerated statment used to make strong effect |
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| expression who's meaning is diffrent form the sum of the meaning of the individual words |
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| particualr tone created when speaker intends meaning that is opposite to words he or she says |
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| use of verbal irony (saying one thing but meaning the oppiste) which pereson seems to be praising something but is actually insulting it |
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| image, object, character, or action that stands for an idea beyondits literal meaning |
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| figure of speech in which speaker says less of what she or he actually feels |
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| personification which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and inanimate, as if animate |
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| comparison of 2 things not using like or as |
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| occurs when element of a story contradict each other |
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| giving a a human characteristic to non-human objects or abstract ideas |
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| form of paradox that combines a pair of oppiste terms into a single unusual expresion |
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| comparicon using like or as |
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| part of sumthing is used to signify thw whole; whole is used to represent a part |
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| sentence that makes statement |
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| sentence that gives a command |
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| sentence that ask a question |
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| sentence that provides emphasis or express strong emotion |
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| 2 independent clauses joined by a coordinationg conjuction or by a semicolon |
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| independent clause and 1 or more subordinate clauses |
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| 2nor more independent clause and 1 or more subordinate clauses |
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| makes complete sense if broughtv to close before actual ending of a sentence |
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| makes sense fully only when the end of a sentence is reached |
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| phrases or clauses balance each other by virtue of likeness of structure, meaning, or length |
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| 2 statements that are balanced, but opposite |
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| arrangement of ideas in second clause in reversal of 1st |
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| deliberate omission of conjuction in series of related clauses |
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| intentional omission of a word or words that are readily implied by context |
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| sentence with the predicate before subject |
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| poetic rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to 1 another, often creating an effect of surprise & wit. |
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| constructing a sentence so subjet comes before predicate |
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| a grammatical or structural similarity between senteces or part of a sentence. it involves an arrangement of words, phrases senteces and paragraphs so that elements of equal importance are equally developed and similarity phrased. |
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| deliberate use of many conjuctions for special emphasis |
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| device which sounds, wordds, and ideas, are used more than once to enhance rythm and to create emphasis |
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| question that requires no answer |
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| sentence fragment used deliberatley for persuasuve purpose or to create a desired effect |
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| repitition of sam word or group of words at the beginning os successive clauses |
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| repititon of last word of 1 clause at beginning of following clause |
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| repition at the end of a clause of word that occured at beginning of clause |
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| repittion of same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses |
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