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*a reference to a statement, person, place, event or thing that is know from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or popular culture
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allusion
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*TALKING DIRECTLY TO SOMETHING THAT CANNOT RESPOND; figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, an abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding.
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apostrophe
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*private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or to another character and that are not supposed to be overheard by others onstage.
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aside
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*a song or songlike poem that tells a story
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ballad
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*a pause or break within a line of poetry, usually indicated by the natural rhythm of the language
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caesura
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*the point of greatest emotional intensity or suspense in a plot
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climax
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*a long narrative poem that relates the great deeds of a larger than life hero who embodies the values of a particular society
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epic
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*an adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing
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epithet
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*"Peter the Great"
"America the Beautiful" are examples of? |
epithet
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*action following the climax
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falling action
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*action leading up to the turning point
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rising action
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*a character who sets off another character by strong contrast
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foil
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*a contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality
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irony
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*In anglo-saxon poety, a metaphorical phrase or compound word used to name a person, place, thing or event indirectly
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kenning
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*"shepherd of evil" - referring to Grendel
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kenning
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*a play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
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pun
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*a medieval verse narrative chronicling the adventures of a brave knight or other hero who must undertake a quest and overcome great danger for love a noble lady or high ideal - chivalry
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romance
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*a long speech in which a character who is usually alone onstage expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings
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soliloquy
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*a play, novel, or other narrative depicting serious and important events, in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
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tragedy
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a comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects
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analogy
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a contrast of ideas expressed in a grammatically balanced statement
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antithesis
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a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or create a comic effect
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hyperbole
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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things with using like, as, than, or resembles
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metaphor
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a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or incongruous ideas
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oxymoron
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an apparent contradiction that is actually true
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paradox
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a kind of metaphor in which nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
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personification
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a term used for descriptions of one kind of sensation in terms of another ex. Loud yellow, sharp smell
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synaesthesia
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figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole
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synecdoche
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*plot gets complicated
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complication
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*when the ghost tells Hamlet he must get revenge, is?
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complication
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*setting is exposed
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exposition
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*Elsinore 600's is?
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exposition
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*hero takes steps to solve conflict
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rising action
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*when Hamlet puts on the play, is?
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rising action
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*turning point
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climax
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*when Hamlet could end the conflict by killing the praying Claudius
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climax
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*hero loses ground in solving conflict
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falling action
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*Hamlet sent to England, is?
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falling action
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*hero sees his flaw and accepts his fate
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tragic recognition
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*fall of sparrow
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tragic recognition
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*letting out of emotion
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catharsis
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*Hamlet kills Claudius
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catharsis
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*hero dies
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catastrophe
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*the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character
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dramatic irony
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*comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections.
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comic relief
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*a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists
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anachronism
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*outer story is a device that allows the telling of many stories
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framework
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*A privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering
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tragic hero
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*a smaller community that is the epitome of a larger community, or sometimes, the world
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microcosm
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Used in the Canterbury Tales
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framework
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Beowulf is an _____
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epic
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God's bright beacon
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kenning
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bracelet-wearing queen
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epithet
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shelterer of warriors
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kenning
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Sir Gawain is a
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Romance
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