Lit Terms

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Satire

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Writing that makes fun of habits, ideas or weaknesses in a person, institution, society, or humanity in general.

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Parody

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Writing that makes fun of a genre of literature, art, or music.

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Farce

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Writing that features slapstick, far-fetched, and ridiculous humor that may include physical comedy, practical jokes, exaggeration, and absurdity.

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Rhetorical Question

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A question that does not require an answer.

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Onomatopoeia

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A Word whose sound suggests its meaning.

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Parallelism

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The Repetition of words, phrases, or sentences to add rhythm and emotion to writing.

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of a word.

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Irony

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a contradictory statement or situation

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Repetition

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Words or phrases repeated in writings to produce emphasis, rhythm, and/or a sense of urgency

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Metaphor

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Comparison which does not use "like" or "as"

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Refrain

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The repetition of a word, phrase, line, or lines in a poem, song, or speech at regular intervals. They often appear at the end of stanzas.

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Suspense

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a growing sense of tension or anxiety about what will happen next in the story

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Form

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The Structure or shape of a written work which may or may not follow strict rules.

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Symbol

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Something concrete that stands for something abstract. A symbol may be a person, place, or thing, or action. It may stand for an idea, belief, feeling, or attitude.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds anywhere in a word or group of words.

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Conflict

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A struggle between two opposing forces.

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Hyperbole

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Obvious exaggeration used to emphasize a point or add excitement and humor to a story.

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Flashback

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an interruption in a story to tell about events that happened earlier

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Moral

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The lesson expressed in a simple story. Fables and Parables are specifically designed to teach a moral.

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Dialect

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An author's use of speech patterns that give hints about a character's regional, educational, social, economic and historical background.

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Idiom

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an expression that means something different from what it says...I'd like a square meal

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Theme

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Indirectly expressed insights.

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Rhyme

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The repetition of end sounds in words.

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If you're dancing with your honey ,
And your nose is cold and runny,
You may think it's funny...

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Rhyme

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Rhythm

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The pattern of beats or stresses in a language.

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Romanticism

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Nature is a beautiful, mysterious, living being
1800-1900

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An apt parrot automatically answers with radically accented swaggers.

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Assonance

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Run On line

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Lines of poetry that continue in meaning and punctuation into the next line to vary the rhythm of a poem.

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End-Stopped Line

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The end of a line of poetry coincides with the end of a thought.

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His nose was as big as a turnip.

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Simile

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Deism

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This religion says that god created the universe to run by laws so perfect that he need not interve in it anymore -
an attempt to explain spiritual matters entirely by human reasoning or natural laws

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Stanza

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A division in poetry that is equivalent to a paragraph in prose.

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Alas! And did my savior bleed, and did my sov'reign die?

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Scansion

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Form

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The structure or shape of a written work which may or may not follow strict rules.

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Crash, Bang, Smash, aarrgg!

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Onomatopoeia

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Scansion

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Marking the pattern of beats or stresses in a poem.

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Unitarianism

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all roads lead to God - god is a generic one, not a trinity, no need for a Savior, Son, or Spirit to meddle with our hearts...man is basically good.

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Simile

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Comparison which uses like or as.

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in a word or group of words.

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Utilitarianism

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People are only as valuable as they are useful to society - God doesn't enter into it

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Industrial Revolution

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This movement emphasized the supremacy of human reason, science, and natural law

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Enlightenment

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1700-1800

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

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Alliteration

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Hope put soap in a cantaloupe and fed the goat a broken loaf

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Assonance

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Steven says that asters have the biggest stamens and roses have the biggest pistils

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Consonance

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Grendel howled and growled and groaned and moaned

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Onomatopoeia

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I tell you, the mosquito was as big as a blue jay!

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Hyperbole