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Allegory

a story that is represented through another story

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Allusion

a refrence to another literary work in a story

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Anaphora

the repition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence or poem

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Colloquialism

informal language

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Dynamic character

the character that changes between the beginning and the end of a story

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Anecdote

brief story to hook someone

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Aphorism

a short, witty statement that reveals the truth, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”

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Asyndeton

when you use a series of commas with no conjunction, ex. “milk, water, eggs”

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Conceit

a long extending metaphor, mostly found in poetry

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Synecdoche

when you use a part to represent a whole, ex. “give me a hand” the “hand” represents you as a whole person

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Cliche

a phrase or opinion that is overused

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Couplet

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme

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Metonymy

when a word is replaced by something very close to the original meaning

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Epistrophe

the repetition of a word at the end of sentences

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Apostrophe

a punctuation mark used to indicate possession, or the omission of letters and numbers

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Bildungsroman

coming of age story

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Cadence

inflection and rhythm of someone’s voice

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Palindrome

a word that is spelled the same way forward and backwards

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Denouement

resolution of a play

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Homophone

two words that sound the same but have different meanings

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Pun

A play on words

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Polysyndenton

only conjunctions between commas

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Anastrophe

inverted word order

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Caesura

a break in the middle of a line of poetry

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Assonance

the repetition of a vowel sound

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antihero

character of that has non-heroic attributes

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foil

a character that brings out opposite characteristics in another character

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juxtaposition

two ideas placed closely to each other in order to bring out differing ideas

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analogy

comparison of two ideas

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epic

long narrative writing about an important/historical

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ad hominem

attack individuals instead of ideas in arguments

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farce

type of satire- baffonery because it is so outlandish

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anachronism

wrong time period

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didactic

intended to teach

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chiasmus

a phrase that is reversed in the second part from the first part

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euphony

pleasing to the ear

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cacophony

harsh sounding word

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anthropomorphism

giving inanimate objects human qualities

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euphemism

using wording that sounds nicer to describe what it really is

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doppelganger

a literal copy or duplicate, can also be opposites

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Ethos

Appeal to credibility

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Logos

Appeal to logic

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Pathos

Appeal to emotion

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Mood

How the literature makes the reader feel

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Motif

Recurring idea in a work of literature

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