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allegory: extended metaphor that represents elements outside of the story
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anachronism: violations of time and space when an event of person is placed int eh wrong time
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analogy: comparison of two pairs with the same relationship
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anastrophe: a language's usual order is inverted
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anecdote: brief narrative centered on an event or incident
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anthropomorphism: presenting a nonhuman as a human; rabbit "declares" he is late (alice in wonderland)
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antihero: protagonist who is more ordinary than a traditional hero or one who is sometimes villainous
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antithesis: balance of contrasting terms with parallel grammatical structure "many are called, but few are chosen"
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apostrophe: direct address to a thing, person, or abstraction who is usually absent
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aside: when an actor speaks directly to the audience, but the rest of the actors on stage can't hear it
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assonance: when the same vowel sounds are repeated in nearby words (book,took)
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ballad: narrative songs that may be sung or simply recited, courage or love, four line stanzas abcb defe
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climax: high point when you know how the conflict will be resolved
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comedy: leads characters into amusing situations, ridiculous complications, and a happy ending
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complication: rising action (developing conflict)
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conclusion: the hero has won or lost, issues resolved, order is restored
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concrete poetry: highly graphic, modern poems that are also graphic art
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consonance: final consonant sounds of stressed syllables are repeated but the preceding vowels are different
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crisis: reversal from rising action to falling action
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denouement: hero has won or lost, issues resolved, order is restored
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elegy: lament over the death of someone of the loss of something
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exciting force: the obstacles of the conflict that set the rising action into play
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exposition: introduction of setting, characters
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fable: centers around a moral
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falling action: gives a sense of completion giving resolution to unresolved situations
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farce: satire in the extreme
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figurative language: associated rather than literal meaning is conveyed
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figure of speech: associated rather than literal meaning is conveyed
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first person point of view: may be the main character, a secondary character, or an outside observer
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foil: contrasting character who through that very contrast allows the viewer to see another character more clearly
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genre: product of a work's sequence pattern, organization of thought, subject, and structure
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introduction: opening of the play, setting and characters established
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metonymy: ,closely associated name of an object is used in place of a word; king as "the crown"
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monologue: when an actor gives a speech in the presence of other characters who listen but do not speak
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ode: complex, serious, long lyric poem; sulogive someone or something
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oxymoron: words, terms, or expressions appear to be self contradicting' bittersweet, dry martini, love-hate relationship, "cold-fires"
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parable: teaches a lesson with a tightly structured allegory
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parallelism: similar ideas, structures, or sounds are repeated; (repetition of structure, repetition of words, repetition of words at the beginning of sentences or clauses)
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parody: comic or satiric imitation of a more serious work
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pastoral: poems with country life as the subject and shepards as characters in rural settings, popular between 1550 and 1750
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pathos: when a passage or scene captures the heart of the reader or audience with intense feelings of sorrow and pity
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perspective: a way of viewing the subject, people, or events involved
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point of view: who is telling the story, how does that person relate to the plot, how much does he know about what is going on in the story
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resolution: hero has won or lost, issues resolved, order restored
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rhetorical question: asked not for an answer but to emphasize a point
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rhyme scheme: pattern of the end rhyme of each line
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rising action: makes the initial conflict more complicated
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satire: makes the subject look ridiculous
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setting: time and place of the story as well as the socioeconomic background of the characters
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soliloquy: when an actor delivers a speech when he or she is alone expressing thoughts
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sprung rhythm: rhythm that sounds like natural speech rhythm; each foot starts with a stressed syllable, but each foot varies in syllables
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stanza: consists of lines that are grouped together in a poem because of the rhythm, rhyme scheme, and/or meaning
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style: how the writer uses the literary elements to express his or her attitude
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surrealism: dream images and imaginary expressions
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symbol: stands for something else but in a less structured way than an allegory
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synecdoche: the name of a part represents the whole; workers are called "hands"; spies are a countries "ears and eyes"
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syntax: arrangements of words into patterns
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theater of the absurd: 1950s and 60s; no concrete plot, images of confused people in a strange world
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third-person view: limited (knows the feelings of only one of the characters), or all-knowing and knows everyone's feelings and thoughts
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tragedy: humans do not and cannot overcome inevitable failure
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tragic hero: has a flaw in character that causes his ultimate defeat
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turning point: there is no reversal from the rising action to the falling action
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voice: attitude toward the reader and subject
