Literary Terms

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Symbolism

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The use of language, character or objects to represent something else.

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Soliloquy

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1. speech you make to yourself
2. a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections

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Iambic Pentameter

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poetry consisting of five parts per line, each part having one short or unstressed syllable and one long or stressed syllable

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Blank Verse

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poetry which doesn't rhyme, usually written in iambic pentameter.

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Imagery

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Imagery is any poetic reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). Essentially, imagery is a group of words that create a mental image. Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, and assonance.

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Simile

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a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

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Metaphor

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figure of speech in which one thing is called another which it resembles in some significant way.

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Dramatic Irony

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situation where a character is unaware of something the audience knows

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Verbal Irony

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A character says the opposite of what he or she means.

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Foreshadowing

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the use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in literature.

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First person Narrator

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First-person narrative is a literary technique in which the story is narrated by one or more of the characters, who explicitly refers to him or herself in the first person, that is, "I."