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Allegory |
A story with underlying symbols that really represent something else |
The nursey rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" was really a political allegory, representing people in government who were falling from power. |
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Alliteration |
The use of a repeated consonant sound, usually at the beginning of a series of words |
Silently stalking her sister on the stairs |
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Allusion |
A reference to something or someone, usually literary |
Mr. Jones got the neighborhood kids to do his yard work- just as Tom Sawyer got the kids to paint the fence |
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Anachronism |
Placing a person or object in an inappropriate historical situation. It can be deliberate or unintentional |
George Washington rode his imousine downtown for the inauguration |
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Analogy |
Comparing something to something else |
Starting a new job is like starting a new school year |
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Anecdote |
A short narrative, story, or tale |
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Antagonist |
The major character opposing the protagonist. Usually the villian |
Boris Badanov, Bullwinkle's enemy, is my favorite antagonist |
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Anthropomorphism |
Assigning human attributes such as emotions or physical characteristics to non human things. Used almost exclusively for attributing human characteristics to animals |
My cat, Fluffy, is always happy to see me. The mother rhinoceros was depresssed for weeks over the loss of her offspring to the cruel hunter. |
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Diction |
Word choice |
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Fable |
A story that has a moral, susually involving animals as the main character |
Aesop's fable about the grasshopper and the ant is a great illustrstion of why you should work hard and prepare for bad times. |
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Figurative language |
Language characterized by figures of speech such as metaphors and similies as well as elaborate expression through imagery |
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Hyperbole |
A deliberate exaggeration |
Taking the test was the easiest thing I've ever done. There were a billion people at the concert |
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Irony |
An expression of meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning |
Stories can be ironic as well when they end in a way that is the opposite of what you would have expected. A story about an obsessively clean man who is kiled by a garbage truck is ironic. |
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Metaphor |
A metaphor is a comparison like a simile, but it doesnt use the words like or as. |
She was a breath of fresh air in the classroom. The new principle was more strict than a prison warden. |
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Meter |
The rhythm of a poem. |
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Narrative |
A literary representation of an event or a story-the text itself |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word intended to simulate the actual sound of the thing or action it describes. |
A buzzing bee. Bam! |
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Oxymoron |
A phrase in which words are contradictory |
They were intelligently ignorant |
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Parable |
A story that has a moral. The story of the good Samaritan is a famous parable from the Bible. |
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Paradox |
This is a phrase that appears to be contradictory, but which actually contains some basic truth that resolves the apparent contradiction. |
Although he was sentenced to ten years of hard labor, the guilt-ridden criminal looked as though a weight had been lifted from his soldiers |
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The repetition of sounds, meanings, or structures to create a certain style |
I don't want your pity. I don't want your money. I don't want your car. I want only your love. |
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Parody |
A literary work in which the style of an author is imitated for comic effect or ridicule |
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Pastoral |
A work that deals with the lives of people, especislly shepards, in the country or in nature (as opposed to people in the city) |
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Pathos |
Something that evokes a feeling of pity or sympathy. Think of the word pathetic. |
And so, the little orphan girl curled up on the cold steps of the chuch and triee to sleep. |
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Personification |
Assigning human attributes to something nonhuman |
I hope that fortune will smile on me when I take my exam. My car always seems so miserable when I let someone else drive. |
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Perspective |
The place from which the narrator or character sees things |
From my perspective, what you did was horrible, although others might not think so. |
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Point of View |
The perspective from which a story is presented to the reader. The most common points of view are first person and third person. |
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Protagonist |
The main character, usually the hero |
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Satire |
Ridicule of a subject. |
Saturday Night Live often makes use of satire. When the cast pokes fun at the president, they are satirizing the politics of the country. Satire is humorous and often intended to point out something about a series subject. |
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Simile |
A simile is a comparison of two things using the words like or as. |
I'm as quick as a cricket He's as sly as a fox. |
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Style |
The author's unique manner of expression; the author's voice |
I'm not a fan of that author; his style is too long-winded and flowery |
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Stanza |
The divisions in a poem, like a paragraph in prose. |
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Theme |
The main idea of a piece of literature |
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Tone |
Syle or manner of expression |
Funeral eulogies have a somber tone |