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Aside
A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is hear by the audience but not by other characters in the play
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aphorism
A brief statement which expresses an observation on life, usually intended as a wise observation.
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apostrophe
A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman
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Ballad
A story in poetic form, often about tragic love and usually sung
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denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
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blank verse
A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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antagonist
A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work
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allegory
A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings
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assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a literary work, especially a poem
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caesura
A pause within a line of poetry which may or may not affect the metrical count
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climax
The decisive moment in a drama, the climax is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads. Determines the outcome of the conflict
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concrete poetry
A poem that visually resembles something found in the physical world
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conceit
A far fetched simile or metaphor, a literary conceit occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things
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alliteration
Used for poetic effect, a repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a group
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allusion
A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work
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connotation
The emotional implications and associations that a word may carry.
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comedy
A literary work which is amusing and ends happily
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soliloquy
In a drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud
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anapest
In a line of poetry, two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable forming the pattern for the line or perhaps the entire poem
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ambiguity
A statement which can contain two or more meanings.
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consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line
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couplet
A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming