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Alliteration
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repetition of initial consiuent sounds
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Allusion
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reffenence to another text
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•“He was a real Romeo with the ladies.” Romeo was a character in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, and was very romantic in expressing his love for Juliet. |
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Antagonist
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A character in a story who is in confict with the protagonist
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Aside
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a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.
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Atmosphere
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The prevaling mood in a story
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Audience
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The reader or listener of the play or story
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Bias
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When someone has a set idea about a topic priar to reading or writing
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Character
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A persona in a story
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Chronological order
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The sequence of events ordered from earlyest to present
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Cliche'
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A phrase that is commonly used in language and literature
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a dog is a mans best friend |
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Climax
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The most exciting moment in the story
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Colloquial
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AKA slang
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Compare
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Looking for the similarities
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Dialogue
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When a character is speaking
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Dynamic character
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When a character changes or evolves throughod the coarse of the story
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walter ehite |
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Exposition;expository
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A piece of writing where you explain something
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An essay |
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Falling Action
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Events after the climax that lend to the end of the story
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Figurative language
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Not literal used to create images or emotion in the readers mind
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Flashback
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chronalogical events interu pted by a memory
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Flat Chocacter
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A character who never changes
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Foil
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A character who's the opposite to another character
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Foreshadowing
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A hint to the reader or avdience of somthing is going to happen
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Genre
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Type of story
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Hyperbole
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An extrence exaduaration
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Irony
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When the opposite of what expected happens
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Jargon
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Language that is specific to a group of people
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Metaphor
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Direct comparison eithout like or as
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Mood
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same as Atmosphere; A feeling of the story
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Narrator
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The person who tells the story
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Objective point of view
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A view without athe bias
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Onomatopeia
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Words that replicate sounds
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Oxymoron
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A prase that contredicts itself
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jumbo shrimp |
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Personification
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Inadimate objects with human characteristics
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Persuasion
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To convince
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Plot
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events in a story
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Resolution
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When a conflict is solved
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Rhyme
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To words that sound the same
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Rhyme scheme
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The pattern of rhyme with in a poem
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Sarcasm
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The opposite of what is stated
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Satire
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Using comedy to a dress a real problem in society
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Simile
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Comparison with like or as
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Slang
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Unofficial language that is commonly used
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Stanza
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Poem paragraph
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Persuasion
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To convince
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Plot
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events in a story
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Resolution
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When a conflict is solved
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Rhyme
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To words that sound the same
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Rhyme scheme
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The pattern of rhyme with in a poem
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Sarcasm
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The opposite of what is stated
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Satire
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Using comedy to a dress a real problem in society
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Simile
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Comparison with like or as
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Slang
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Unofficial language that is commonly used
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Stanza
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Poem paragraph
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Static - Character
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A character who does not change
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Stereotyped character
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A character who fits into the stereotype perpetuated by society
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Style
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The way the writes
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Symbol
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An object that represents something else in a story
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Theme
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The prevailing message after story. This statement must be universal
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rhyme scheme
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The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza.
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rhythm
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a regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements
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rising action
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a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
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round character
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a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author.
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setting
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the place where something is or where something happens, and the general environment
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sonnet
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a poem with 14 lines whichrhyme with each other in a fixed pattern:
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speaker
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someone who makes a formal speech to a group of people
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static character
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A character who remains the same throughout a narrative. Static characters do not develop or change beyond the way in which they are first presented.
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suspense
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a feeling of excitement or anxiety when you do not know what will happen next
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thone
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the way your voice sounds, which shows how you are feeling or what you mean
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tragedy
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a very sad event, that shocks people because it involves death:
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understatement
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a statement that is not strong enough to express how good, bad, impressive etc something really is
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