Literary Terms/ English Pre Ap

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Language describing ideas ad qualities rqther that observable or specific things, people, or places.

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Absrtact Language

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A song or songlike poem that tells a story.

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Ballad

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The literal, dictionary definition of a word.

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Denotaion

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A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain geographical area or certain roup of people.

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Dialect

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All the action folowing the climax.

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Falling action

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The repeition at close intervals of inital identical consonant sounds.

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Alliteration

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aN INDERECT REFRENCE TO SOMETHING (USUALLY A LITERARY TEXT) with wich the reader is supposed to be familliar.

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Allusion

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The comparison to a directly parellel case. When a writer eses a _______, he or she argues that a claim reasonable for one case is resobable for the analogous case.

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Analogy

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A brief recounting of relevant episode. ______ q43 offten inserted into fitctin or nonfictional texts as a way of developing a pont or injecting humor.

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Anecdote

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Explatory notes added to a text to explain, cute sources, or give bibilographical data.

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Annotaion

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An important opponent of the main character or hero.

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Antagonist

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Repeition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

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Assonance

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A preferce or indication for one side of an issue, either fot it or against it.

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Bias

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the method an author uses to develop characters in a work.

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Characterization

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the point in a story that creats the greatest suspence or intrest.

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Climax

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language that decribes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas or qualities.

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Concrete Language

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A struggle between opposing characters or opposing forces.

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Conflict

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RAther than the dictionary defintion, the associations suggest by a word. Implied meaninh rather than the literal meaning or denotion.

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Connotation

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Repitition of a cansonant sound within two or more words in a cole proximity.

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Consonance

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Word Choice

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Diction

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A temporary depparture from the main subject in speaking or writing

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Digression

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A work of literature meant to be performed for an audince by acotors.

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Drama

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A character who changes sigificantly during the course of the story

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Dynamic Character

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rhyme at the ends if the lines or verses, ditinguished from rhyme within a line and rhyme at teh beginning of a line. ___ is the most common form of rhyme.

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End Rhyme

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Background information provided bt a writer to enhance a reader's understanding of the context of a fictional or nonfictional story.

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Exposition

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Interruption in the present action of a lot to show events happened at an erlier time

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flshback

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a character constructed around a single idea or wuality, a ____ is immediatly recognizable.

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Flat character

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the use of clues or hints suggeste events that will occur later

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foreshawdowing

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frence word, a literary form or type, classification

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genre

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conscious exaggeration used to heighten effect. not intended literally, often humors.

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hyperbole

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an expression pecuiliar to a particular language that means something diffrent from the literal meaning of the word.

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idiom

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the use of images, ezpesciallt in a pattern og related images, often figurative, to create a strong meaning of the words.

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imagery

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a contrast between what is ecxpected to occur and whaty acually occurs

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irony

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lfolowing the ordinary or usual meeting of a term or expression

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literal

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a comparison of two things often unrelated, not using like or as.

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metaphor

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so overused that its original impact has been lost

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dead medaphor

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an atmosphere created bt the writer's word choice, and the details selected.

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mood

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the lesson drawn from the fictional or nonfictional story

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moral

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a story that seplains something tabout the world and typicaly involves gods or other peritual forces

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myth

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a poem that tells a story

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narrative poem

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the use of a word whos pronounciation suggestsits meaning.

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onomatopeia

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figurative language in wich inanimate objacts anumals, ideas, have human traits.

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personification

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system od actions represented in a dramatic or narative work

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plot

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the perspective from wich a fictional or non fictional sroty is told.

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point of view

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and writing that is not poetry.

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prose

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chief character in a dramactic narrative work

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protagonist

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a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings

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pun

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the part in the storie where are the problomes are solved.

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resolution

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the art og efeective comunication, especially persuasive discourse.

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rhetoric

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a question ased, no answer is expected.

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rhetorical question

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the repretion of acccented vowels sounds and all sounds following them in words are close together in a poem

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rhyme

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musical quality produced by the repetion of stressed syllablesor sound patterns

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rythem

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all the actin leading up to the climax

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rising action

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a character drawn with sufficient complexity to be able to supries the reader without losing credibility

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round character

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local and period in wich the action takes place

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setting

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comparing two things using like or as

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similie

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a musical compsiton o words and music

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song

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a forteen-line poem, wrtten in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme.

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sonnet

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a sroup of conseecutive lines in a poem from a single unti

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stanza

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story intro. tells us who the characers are and usually what there cinflict is.

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starting point

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a character who does not change significitly during teh story.

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static character

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converentional characer types that recur repeatedly in various kluterary genres

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stock character

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the choice of diction,tone and sntanx that a wrtier makes.

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style

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the uncertanty or anxiety that a reader feels about what will happen next

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suspence

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a thing, even ir oersibn that represents or stands for some idea or event

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symbol

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the central idea or ideas of a work of fiction or nonfiction, revealed during the course of the sory

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theme

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one or two sentences in the inroductory oaragraoh of a... essay.

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thesis statement

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a writer's attidtude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, fig. language, and organization of the sentance and slabal levels

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tone.

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in its most general sense, synonym for poetry

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verse