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allegory
a prose or poetic narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance.
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alliteration
the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually heard in closely proximate stressed syllables
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allusion
a referance to a literary or historical event, person, or place
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anapestic
a metrical foot in poetry that consists of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed
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anaphora
the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses
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anecdote
a brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature
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antagonist
any force that is in oppositionto the main character, or protagonist
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antithesis
the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balence or parallel words, phrases, grammical structure, or ideas
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apostrophe
an address or invocation to something that is inanimate
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archetype
recurrent designs, patterns of action, character types, themes, or images which are identifiable in a wide range of literature
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assonance
repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually those found in stressed syllables of close promixity
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asyndeton
a style in which conjuctions are omitted, usually producing a fast pace more rapid prose
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attitude
the sense expressed by the tone of voice and/ or the mood of a piece of writing ; the feelings the author holds torwards his subject, the people in his narrative, the events, the setting, or even the theme.
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ballad
a narrative poem that is, or originally was meant to be sung. repetition and refrain (recurring phrase or phrases) characterize the ballad.
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ballad stanza
a common stanza from, consisting of a quatrain( a stanza of four lines) that alternates four-beat and three-beat: one and three are unrhymed iambic tetrameter (four beats) and two and four are rhymed iambic trimeter (three beats)
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blank verse
he verse form that most resembles common speech, blank verse consists of unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter
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caesura
a pause in a line verse, indicated by natural speech patterns rather than due to specific metrical patterns.
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