English 12 Literary Terms

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Active Voice

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The person doing the action

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Act

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Division of a play

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Allegory

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A story that has a second meaning

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Alliteration

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Repetition of a consonant

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Allusion

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Reference to a familiar thing

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Anachronism

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Something placed in an inappropriate period of time

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Analogy

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Similarity between two different things

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Anecdote

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Short story

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Antagonist

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Opposor of the protagonist

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Anticlimax

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plot twist

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Anti hero

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character with no heroism qualities

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Aphorism

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Observation on life

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Apostrophe

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figure of speech when the person in question is not present but is being addressed

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Assonance

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repetition of vowels

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Blank verse

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poetry with no structure

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Dynamic Character

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undergoes significant change

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Static Character

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no change to character over the storyline

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round character

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Character with several sides

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Flat Character

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minor Character

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Character foil

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character whose behaviour is opposite to that of the protagonist. Aids in developing the protagonist

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Conceit

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a far fetched simile or metaphor

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Elegy

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poem lamenting death

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Epigram

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Short, witty poem

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euphemism

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indirect mild expression instead of the harsh truth

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euphony

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agreeable sounds

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Dramatic Irony

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author shares information not known by the character

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situational irony

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circumstances turn out differently than expected

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verbal irony

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ironic statements

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pathos

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Appealing to emotions in an audience

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logos

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Appealing to an audiences logic

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Ethos

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bla

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Rhetorical devices

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technique to induce emotional response in a listener

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rhetorical question

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a question asked to produce an effect but no reply

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Anaphora

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repetition of an identical word group at the beginning of a sentence

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Enjambment

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continuous line, run on line