Literary Terms

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allegory

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a narrative that serves as an extended metaphor

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alliteration

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the repetition of consonant sound

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allusion

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reference to a person, place, or thing, in history or another work in lit.

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antagonist

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a character who deceives, frustrates, or works against the protagonist

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aside

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an actor's speech directed to the audience

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ballad

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a narrative folk song

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character

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someone with thoughts and actions in literature

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connotation

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association that comes with a word

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couplet

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poetry, two lines with rhyming ends

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Denotation

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the exact meaning of the word, without suggestions it may imply

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denoument

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literal-action of untying
the final outcome of the main complication

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dialouge

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conversation between characters in a narrative

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didactic

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informational literature or art

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dramatic monolauge

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literary device
when a character reveals their inner thoughts

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elegy

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type of literature defined as a song or poem , written in elegiac couplets, expressing sorrow for someone who died

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epigram

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short poem that seeks ridicule with sarcasm

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figurative language

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language that varies from literal language

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flashback

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a narrative way that allows a writer to see past events

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genre

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a type of literature

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gothic

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a literary style popular late 18th century

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hyperbole

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extravagant exaggeration

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irony

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how something is not as it would seem

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lyric

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a song-like poem to express feelings of someone

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metaphor

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connecting two unlike things w/o like or as
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metonymy

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substitutes a term with another

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motif

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something recurring in literature

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myth

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any story explaining how world was created, or why involves relgion

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narrative

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events that tell a story, not necessarily true, and in a particular order

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narrative poem

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a poem telling a story

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narrator

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the person who tells the story
speaker or "voice" of work

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parable

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a brief simple narrative illustrating moral or religious lessons

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persona

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the narrator, of work created by the author

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personification

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unhuman objects given human quality

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point of view

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the way the story of events are conveyed, "vantage point"

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protagonist

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the main character

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rhyme

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repetition of similar accented sound

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rhyme scheme

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the pattern of rhyme used in a poem, indicated by matching lowercase letters

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setting

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the time, place, physical details, and circumstances where the event takes place

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simile

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figurative language
that compares two unlike things using like or as

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short story

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a brief narrative

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sonnet

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uses metrical structure consisting of fourteen lines, arranged in a rhyme scheme

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symbol

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a word that stands for another word

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theme

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common thread that is incorporated throughout a literary work