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Autobiography |
The account of a person's life written in his or her own words. |
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Characterization |
The act of creating and developing a character. |
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Climax |
The high point of interest or suspense in a story and is sometimes called the dénouement. |
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Conflict |
The struggle between two opposing forces. |
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Diction |
An author's word choice and arrangement. |
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Dramatic Irony |
A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader knows to be true. |
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End Rhyme |
It occurs at the ends of two or more poetic lines. |
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Exact Rhyme |
It occurs when two words have identical sounds in their final accented syllables. |
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Exposition |
It introduces the setting, characters, and situation. |
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External Conflict |
Man vs. (Man, Society, Nature, God, Fate, Etc) |
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Falling Action |
The events that follow the climax. |
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Free Verse |
Poetry that has irregular meter and line length. |
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Humor |
Writing intended to evoke laughter. |
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Internal Conflict |
Man vs. Himself |
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Internal Rhyme |
It appears within a single line. |
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Irony |
A discrepancy between what is stated and what is meant. |
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Naturalism |
It focuses on people's helplessness in the face of chance. |
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Parable |
A simple, usually brief, story that teaches a moral lesson. |
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Parallelism |
The repetition of grammatical structure. |
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Point of View |
The vantage point from which a story is told. |
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Realism |
It depicts ordinary people coping with everyday realities. |
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Regional Dialect |
A provincial, rural, or socially distinct variety of a language that differs from the standard language |
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Regionalism |
A literary movement that depicts and analyzes the unique qualities of an area and its people |
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Resolution |
The end of the central conflict. |
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Rising Action |
It is when the conflict is being developed. |
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Romanticism |
A movement, which emphasized emotion, imagination, and nature. |
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Situational Irony |
It occurs when the outcome of an action or situation is very different from what one expects. |
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Slant Rhyme |
It occurs when the final sounds are similar, but not identical. |
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Stream of Consciousness |
A narrative technique the presents thoughts as if they were coming directly from a character's mind. |
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Style |
It refers to the manner in which a writer puts his or her thoughts into words. |
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Symbol |
Something that has meaning in itself while also standing for something greater. |
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Tone |
It reflects the author's attitude toward the subject, characters, or audience. |
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Theme |
The unifying subject or idea of a story. |
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Transcendentalism |
An intellectual movement founded by Emerson. |
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True Rhyme |
It occurs when the vowel sounds and consonants appearing after them are exactly the same. |
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Verbal Irony |
The use of words to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning. |
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