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Action
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The bare events in a story. Actions should not be confused with plot. Plot includes the meaning and purpose of the events.
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Allegory
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A story which makes sense on a literal level, but also conveys an abstract level of meaning. The deeper meaning is usually spiritual, moral or political. An allegory (character, setting or action) is one-dimensional: it stands for only one thing. Parables, fables, and satires are all forms of allegory.
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Alliteration
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A literary device which creates interest by the recurrence of initial consonant sounds of different words within the same sentence.
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Allusion
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A literary device which creates interests through a brief, indirect reference (not a quotation) to another literary work, usually for the purpose of associating the tone or theme of the one work with the other. Many of these allusions refer to the Bible.
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Ambiguity
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When, for a higher purpose, an author intentionally suggests more than one, and sometimes contradictory, interpretations of a situation. When the different meanings are not intentional, they are considered to be "vague," rather than ambiguous.
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Analogy
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A comparison between two things, or pairs of things, to reveal their similarities; sometimes expressed as a simile.
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Antagonist
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The character in a story who opposes the hero (protagonist).
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Anthropomophism
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A literary technique in which the author gives human characteristics to a non-human object.
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Aphorism (Maxim or Apothegm)
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A short, pithy and instructive statement of the truth.
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Apostrophe
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A literary device which consists of rhetorical pause or digression to address a person (distant or absent) directly
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