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| The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect. For example, buzz, click, rattle, and grunt make sounds akin to the noise they represent. |
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| An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverbial preposition such as like or as in contrast with a metaphor. |
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| Figures of speech in which things are spoken of as if they were something else. |
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| An exaggeration or overstatement. Like Puns, Metaphors, and Simile. |
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| A trope in which abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character traits, abilities, or reactions. |
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| A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions. Examples: mysteries, westerns, sonnets, lyric poetry, epics, tragedies. |
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| irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. |
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| language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors. |
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| Conversation between two or more persons. |
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| Harshly or bitter derision or irony. |
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| a person who gives an account or tells the story of events,experiences, etc. |
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a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic:
The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting. |
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| to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure |
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| a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. |
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| character in conflict with himself or herself (person vs. self) |
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| Character struggles against an outside force. |
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| The time and place of action in a literary work. |
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| Also called atmosphere, it is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. It is often suggested by descriptive details. It can often be described in a single word such as light-hearted, frightening, or despairing. |
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| A person or an animal who takes part in the action of a literary work. |
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| Christian thinkers used this term to signify a manifestation of God's presence in the world. It has since become in modern fiction and poetry the standard term for the sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or scene. In particular, the epiphany is a revelation of such power and insight that it alters the entire world-view of the thinker who experiences it |
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| The main character. The most important character in a story. |
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The part of the plot line following the falling action. In the denouement or
resolution, a general insight or change is conveyed. |
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Exposition: introduces the setting, the characters,and the basic situation.
Inciting Incident: Introduces the central conflict in the story.
Rising Action / Development: Here the conflict of the story increases
Climax: High point of interest or suspense.
Falling Action: Decrease in the tension and/or suspense in a story.
Denouement / Resolution: Follows the falling action. A general insight or change
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The type and amount of information that the narrator reveals.
First-Person Narrator: May be a major character, a minor character, or just a
witness. The reader sees only what the character sees, hear only what he or she
hears, and so on.
Third Person Narrator: When a voice outside the story narrates it.
Omniscient (all-knowing) narrator: Can tell readers what any character thinks or
feels.
Limited Third-Person Narrator: Sees the world through one character’s eyes
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| v. branched out in different directions. |
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| v. Wasting time; loitering. |
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adj. covered with something;
underwater |
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v. attach, as with straps for pulling or
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| adv. very carefully and precisely. |
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| n. ghostly images; phantoms. |
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| adj. threatening; menacing |
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| adj. distasteful; unpleasant. |
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