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Magic Realism

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contemporary narrative that combines mundane events and descriptive details with fantastic elements in a realistic framework

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Epigraph

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a quotation or verse taken from another person, used to introduce a literary text

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Stereotype

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an unrealistic character based on assumptions about common traits of a certain group

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Static Character

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a character who does not grow or change throughout a narrative

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Folktale

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a tale that has been passed down by oral tradition, usually not having a set form in the matter of a fairy tale

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Mood

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the atmosphere of a literary work, conveyed through dictation, characterization, and setting

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Criticism

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the interpretive or analytical work performed by a reader, in which the reader evaluates the textual evidence in order to more fully comprehend a text

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Personification

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the attribution of human characteristics to an inanimate object or phenomenon.

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Allegory

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a narrative in which the characters, action, and dialogue work to represent an abstract concept

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Fable

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a legendary tale usually including animals as characters, who display and represent human foibles, and often having a moral or instructional aspect to the telling

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Round Character

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realistic characters distinguished by depth, psychological complexity, and even self-contradiction

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Literary Epic

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a careful, conscious emulation in writing by an individual author of earlier oral folk tale

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Persona

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refers to any speaker or narrator of a literary text

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Flat Character

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a character who carries the action of a narrative without adding emotional insight

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Indirect Characterization

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the method by which a writer brings a character to life usually through the character's actions

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Concrete Poetry

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Poetry that is shaped on the page, often to resemble the object is describes

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Closed Form

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Refers to any poem that conforms to established conventions for rhyme, meter, or stanza form.

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English Sonnet

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A poem that contains three quatrains and a couplet

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Didactic Poetry

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Poetry that is instructive in aim, seeking to teach its reader a lesson

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Fixed Form

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Poetic form where the poet decides to follow a particular form.

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Accent

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the emphasis placed on syllables in the rhythm of a line of poetry

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Accentual Meter

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measures the rhythm of poetic verse based on the number of speech stresses per line

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Alliteration

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repetition of a sound in a sequence of words

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Free Verse

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Poetry with no prescribed meter

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Assonance

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a pattern of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables of words with different end sounds

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Rhythm

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refers to the sound-patterns created by organization of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables

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Approximate Rhythm

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rhymes that share sound qualities or sounds within words

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Blank Verse

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Considered to be the poetic form closest to normal speech patterns

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Meter

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a regular, recurring rhythm, or pattern of stresses and pauses, in lines of poetry

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Extended Simile

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sustained comparison between two things, using like or as to draw connection

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Exact Rhyme

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the final vowel and consonant sounds are the same.