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| oxymoron | two words or phrases , side-by-side, that mean the opposite things (jumbo shrimp) |
| paradox | a statement that seems to contradict itself; but is actually true |
| personification | giving human or living qualities to non-human or inanimate objects. (the wind sighs) |
| point of view | the standpoint or perspective from which the author tells the story or writes the poem |
| protagonist | main character or hero of the story |
| repetition | the repeating sounds, words, phrases, sentences or rhythms to create an effect or atmosphere |
| satire | literary tone used to make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting or changing the subject of the attact |
| soliloquy | a speech delivered by a character when he or she is alone on stage; itis as though the character is thinking out loud |
| simile | compares two things using "like" or "as" |
| symbolism | the author or poet uses something to stand for something else |
| theme | statement about life that a writer is trying to get across in a piece of writing |
| tone | overall feeling, or effect, created by a writer's use of words |
| tragic hero | a character who experiences an inner struggle because of a character flaw; the struggle ends int he defeat of the hero |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| couplet | two rhymed lines |
| free verse | no rhyme, no meter |
| internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line |
| quatrain | four-lined stanza of a poem |
| stanza | the "paragraph" of a poem; eachstanza is separated from another by double-spacing |
