Literary terms
Literary terms
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Literary terms
accumulation |
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acronym |
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act |
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acting time |
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action |
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allegory |
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alliteration |
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allusion |
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anachronism |
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anacoluthon |
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anadiplosis |
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anagram |
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anaphora |
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anastrophe |
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anecdote |
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antagonist |
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anticlimax |
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antistrophe |
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antithesis |
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aporia |
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aposiopesis |
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apostrophe |
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archaism |
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aside |
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assonance |
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asyndeton |
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atmosphere |
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attitudinal adverb |
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author omniscient |
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ballad |
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blank verse |
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cacophony |
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caesura |
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caricature |
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character |
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characterization |
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cartoon |
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chiasmus |
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chronological order |
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climactic order |
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climax |
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cliff-hanger |
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cloak-and-dagger |
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comedy |
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comic relief |
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comic strip |
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comment |
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complication |
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conflict |
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connotation |
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contrast |
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counterplot |
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couplet |
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crisis |
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denotation |
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denouement |
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description |
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dialectical order |
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diary |
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didactic |
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documentary fiction |
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drama dramatic |
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dramatic irony |
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editorial or leader |
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elegy |
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ellipsis |
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emotive language |
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enjambment |
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entrance |
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epic |
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epigram |
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essay |
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euphemism |
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exaggeration |
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exit |
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exposition |
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expressionism |
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eye rhyme |
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fable |
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falling action |
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feature story |
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figurative meaning |
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flashback |
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focus |
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foot feet |
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forms of discourse |
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frame story |
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free verse |
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historical fiction |
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hyperbole |
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iambus |
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idiom idiomatic speech |
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image imagery |
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instruction |
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interior monologue |
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interview |
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irony |
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jargon |
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keyword outline |
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layout |
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leading article |
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letter to the editor |
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line |
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listing order |
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literal meaning |
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litotes |
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metaphor |
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metonymy |
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metre |
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mode of presentation |
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monologue interior |
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moral |
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narrating time |
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narrator |
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naturalism |
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news story |
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non-fiction (non-fictional) |
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novel |
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ode |
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onomatopoeia |
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open ending |
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oral history |
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oxymoron |
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parable |
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paradox |
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parallelism |
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parody |
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personification |
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play |
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pleonasm |
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plot |
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poem |
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point of view |
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polysyndeton |
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praeteritio |
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protagonists |
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pun |
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quatrain |
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realism |
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register |
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repetition |
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representation |
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examples are |
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report |
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rhetoric |
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rhetorical question |
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rhyme |
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rhyme scheme |
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rhythm rhythmic |
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rising action |
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sarcasm |
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satire |
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scene |
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science fiction |
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setting |
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short story |
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simile |
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sketch |
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slang |
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solecism |
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solution |
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sonnet |
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speaker |
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speech |
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stage direction |
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stanza |
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stream of consciousness |
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summary |
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suspense |
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theme |
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time-scheme |
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tone |
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topical order |
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turning-point |
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type |
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understatement |
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utopia utopian |
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zeugma |
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Literary terms
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