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| end rhyme | words that rhyme at the end of a line |
| internal rhyme | words that rhyme within a line |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| consonance | repetition of consonat sounds within and at the ends of words |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within different words |
| symbol | is something that stands for, or represents something beyond itself |
| repetition | word or group of words is repeated in a selection |
| fiction | refers to imaginativ works of prose, including the novel and short story |
| folk tale | exhibit a fairy-tale unreality |
| motivation | the author's purpose |
| stanza | represents a paragraph, main idea |
| allegory | characters that stand for abstract ideas or concepts |
| simile | comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| irony | contast between what is stated and what is meant or what is expected and what actually happens |
| allusion | A reference to something or someone, often literary. |
| antagonist | A major character who opposes the protagonist, or main character, in a story or play. |
| archetype | a character who represents a certain type of person. |
| assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds, as in ' Day's wane away". |
| atmosphere | the overall feeling of a work, related to tone and mood. |
| blank verse | unrhymed lines of poetry, usually in iambic pentameter. |
| characterization | the means by which an author establishes character. |
| climax | the point at which the action in a story or play reaches its emotional peak. |
| conflict | the elements that create a plot. |
| contrast | (verb) to explain how two things differ. |
| couplets | a pair of rhyming lines in a poem, often set off from the rest of the poem. |
| denouement | the resolution of the conflict in a plot after the climax. |
| dramatic monologue | a poem with a fictional narrator, addressed to someone whose identity the audience knows, but who doesn't say anything. |
| elegy | a poem mourning the dead. |
| end rhyme | rhyming words that are at the ends of thier respective lines. |
| epic | a long poem narrating the adventures of a heroic figure. |
| fable | a story that illustrates a moral, often using animals as the characters.figurative language |
| figurative language | language that does not maen exactly what it says. |
| first person point of view | the point of view of a piece of writing in which that narrator refers to himself as "I". |
| foreshadowing | a technique in which an author gives clues about something that will happen later in the story. |
| free verse | poetry with no set meter(rhythm) or rhyme scheme. |
| genre | a kind of style, usually of art or literature. |
| hyperbole | a huge exaggeration |
| iambic pentameter | ten-syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed. |
| imagery | the use of description that helps the reader imagine how something looks. |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme that occures within one line. |
| irony | language that conveys a certain idea by saying just the opposite. |
| literal language | language that means exactly what it says. |
| lyric | a type of poetry that expresses the poet's emotions. |
| metaphor | a comparison that doesn't use "like" or "as". |
| meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem. |
| monologue | a long speech by one character in a play or story. |
| mood | the emotional atmosphere of a given piece of writing. |
| motif | a theme or pattern that recures in a work. |
| myth | a legend that embodies the beliefs of people and offers some explanation for natural and social phenomena. |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words that sound like what they mean. |
| oxymoron | a phrase made up of two seemingly opposite words. |
| paradox | a seeming contradication |
| parody | a humorous, exaggerated imitation of another work. |
| personification | giving an inanimate object human characteristics. |
| plot | the action of the story |
