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Point of view

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The perspective from which a story is seen and told.

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Locus

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The physical and psychological position from which the speaker relates the story

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Persona

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The undefined speaker in a text that seems to be the writers disguised self.

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Denotative

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What a word means explicitly, many times referred to as the dictionary definition.

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Connotative

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The suggestions and overtones that are associated with the word that go beyond the explicit meaning.

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Logical climax

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The culmination of the logical content. The point at which the conflict becomes so intense that a resolution must occur and only one outcome is possible.

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Emotional climax

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The moment of highest emotional impact and involvement for the reader

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Articulation

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The clear pronunciation of words, including all syllables and sounds.

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Pronunciation

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The correctness of sounds and accents in spoken words.

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Inflection

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Giving special emphasis to that word/phrase by changing the tone or pitch of the voice.

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Narration

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The act of telling a story or giving an account of something.

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Characteristics of Good Literature

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Universality, individuality, suggestion.

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Types of focus

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Open, closed, semi-closed

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Fulcrum

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A shift in the poem when the speaker changes attitude through Direction emphasis or mood and this connects with a change and image sound or meter

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Rhyme

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Exists when words have the same vowel and succeeding sounds with different preceding sounds

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Consonance

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Repetition of identical consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of identical vowel sounds in words in close proximity throughout a poem

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Alliteration

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The repetition of identical consonant sounds usually at the beginning of words in close proximity

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Posody

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The art of patterning in poetry. This patterning can be based on the repetition of sensory images literary images tone color or meter

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Meter

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The rhythmical base of the poem

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Stanza

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A unit which forms a division of a poem equivalent to a paragraph in a prose

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Figurative language

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Language that helps make the poem clear usually through comparison to something outside the poem

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that sound like their meanings that imitate actual sounds. Other words can be made to sound like their meaning

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Personification

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The poet to give human characteristics to inanimate objects abstract qualities or animals

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Apostrophe

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Addresses an inanimate object amuse God or an absent or deceased person

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Synecdoche

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A part is used to suggest the whole. Closely related to metonymy

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Metaphor

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Comparison that suggests a likeness between two unlike objects or things

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Allusion

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Reference to a person place or thing outside the confines of the poem

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated statement that uses inflated language

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Simile

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A comparison using the word like or as

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Oxymoron

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A contradiction that seemingly cannot be resolved

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Metonymy

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A one word / image is used to represent another closely related word /image

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Protagonist

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a central character in a play who is considered to be the good person

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Antagonist

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A character in a play who opposes the protagonist

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Flat character

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Has one prevailing trait or personality

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Round character

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Has many traits and characteristics multi-dimensional

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Static character

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Does not undergo any change.

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Dynamic character

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Undergoes a change from the beginning to the end