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Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
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Allusion: a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: an allusion to Shakespeare.
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Antagonist: a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary.
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Characterization: the creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.
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Coming of Age: reaching maturity, respectability, or prominence; also written coming-of-age
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Conflict: a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle; strife.
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Connotation: connotation is an implied meaning of a word. Opposite of denotation.
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Denotation: denotation is the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning. Opposite of connotation.
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Denouement: the place in the plot at which this occurs.
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Diction: style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.
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Direct Speech: the reporting of what someone has said or written by quoting his exact words
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Episodic Novel: pertaining to or of the nature of an episode.
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Figurative Language: speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech
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Flashback: a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
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Foreshadowing: to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
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Genre: a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: the genre of epic poetry; the genre of symphonic music. biographies, fiction, non-fiction, etc.
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Indirect Speech: the reporting of something said or written by conveying what was meant rather than repeating the exact words, as in the sentence He asked me whether I would go as opposed to He asked me, "Will you go?"
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Inverted Word Order: where the verb is before the subject in the sentence: These types include interrogative sentences, conditional clauses without if, and declarative sentences that begin with negative or restrictive words such as never, rarely, scarcely, hardly ever, and not only.
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Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.
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Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in "A mighty fortress is our god." Compare mixed metaphor, simile. comparing two things NOT using like or as
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Mood: a state or quality of feeling at a particular time: What's the boss' mood today?
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Motif: a recurring theme throughout the book or movie
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Mystery Fiction: example: Sherlock Holmes. It is a type of genre such as biographies, fiction, non-fiction, etc.
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Narrator: to give an account or tell the story of (events, experiences, etc.).
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Paradox: a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. example: jumbo shrimp.
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Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
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Point of View: seeing the story develop through someone else's eyes
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Protagonist: the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
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Repetition: some thing that happens over and over again
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Rhyme: identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
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Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned
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Sensory Imagery: image is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
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Setting: the surroundings or environment of anything: The garden was a perfect setting for the house. or the time and place the scene takes place
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Simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in "she is like a rose." Compare metaphor. comparing two things using like or as
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Symbol: something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.
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Theme: a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic: The need for world peace was the theme of the meeting.
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Tone: any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.
