Lit Terms 1

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Allegory

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Story where characters stand for other things

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Allusion

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Reference something in history, usually literature

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Ambiguity

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Deliberately suggesting two conflicting meanings, by author

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Analogy

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Comparison

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Anaphora

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Repetition at beginning of two sentences in a row

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of usual sentence setup

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Anecdote

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Brief story, used to prove a point

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Antimetabole

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

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Antithesis

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Balancing words or phrases this are strongly contrasted

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Antihero

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Central character that lacks heroic qualities

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Anthropomorphism

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Personification

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Aphorism

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Brief clever statement making a wise observation

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Apostrophe

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Calling out to imaginary dead

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Apposition

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Immediately succeeding coordinate elements

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by consonant sounds

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Asyndeton

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Commas used without conjunction

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Balance

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Sentence with equal halves

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Indirect Characterization

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Looks and dresses

Acts

An outside view

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Direct characterization

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Tells directly

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Static character

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Not much change

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Dynamic character

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Changes a lot

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Flat character

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Lack of personality

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Round character

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Multi dimensional

Complex

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Chiasmus

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Flowers are lovely ,love is flowerlike

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Colloquialism

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Common in every day use but informal

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Comedy

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Ends with a happy ending

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Conceit

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Extended metaphor

Startlingly different