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alliteration: a repitition of a particular sound
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allusion: when a author refers to another work
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antagonist: the person against the main character
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anthology: a collection of literature works
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assonance: repetition of indentical or similar or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words
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bibliography: references
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character: features and thats of an individual
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characterization: how the characters portray their roles
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conflict: a fight, battle, or struggle especially a prolonged struggle
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connotation: secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to the primary meaning
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consonance: repetition of consonant sounds, but no vowels
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couplet: a pair of successive lines of vers with the same length
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denotation: direct meaning of word or expression
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dialogue: words, phrases and expressions
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drama: a specific mode of fiction represented in performance
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dramatic irony: speeches or a situation of a drama that is understood by the audience but not grasp by the character
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dynamic: a character that undergoes permanent change in a story
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fiction: an even that is not true
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first person: the story is narrated by one person and speaking for themselves. saying "I"
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foil: one character that contrasts with another character
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foreshadowing: to show or indicate something beforehand
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free verse: poetry that is written without proper rules
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genre: the story type
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heroic couplet: a stanza consisting of two rhyming lines in an iambic pentameter; they are exactly the same
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hyperboler: a type of figurative language that often compares two objects
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irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of what you expect to happen
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juxtaposition: the state of being close together or side by side
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metaphore: a figure of speech that suggests a resemblance without using like or as
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meter: a rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into
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monologue: when the character is speaking his/jer thoughts aloud directly addressing another character
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narrative: a story of events
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nonfiction: an even that is true
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novel: narrative story with considerable legnth and complexity that portrays characters, actions and scenes
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omniscient: the capacity to know everything about a character
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onomatopeoia: the word that imitates the sound it represents
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personification: giving human traits
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play: a form of literature written by a playwrite
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plot: the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary of dramatic work, as a play, novel or short story
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point of veiw: the position of the narrator in relation to the story &characters
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prose: any written work thats not a poem
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protagonist: the main character
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pun: word or phrases used to emphasis different meanings
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rhyme: a word that sounds the same as another
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sentence: an expression in natural language
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setting: when or where the story takes place
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simile: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using like or as
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soliloquy: when the character talks to him/herself
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speaker: a person who speaks
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stanza: an arrangment or fixed length forming a division of a poem
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static: a character that do not change
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symbol: a letter, phrase, image or character representing something
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theme: the moral of the story
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thesis statement: a sentence or two of your text that contains the focus of your essay and tells your reader what it is all about
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third person: spoken by an omniscent person
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topic sentence: the first sentence in a paragraph that influences the main idea
