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The light bulb goes off and you suddenly “get it.”
Epiphany
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The author’s attitude toward the subject was serious
Tone
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The phrase “his candle dancing in the draught of the ill-fitting window …” is an example of which type of figurative language?
Personification
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The implication of a word
Connotation
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A literary work that tells a story
Narrative
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A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme.
Tragedy
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Graduating from high school is bittersweet
Oxymoron
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Carpe Diem
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She bought out the MAC counter just to have enough makeup for one day!
Hyperbole
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War is Peace
Paradox
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A death row pardon two minutes too late, and the audience is aware of it
Dramatic Irony
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The story took place in Salinas Valley, California
Setting
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Poetry with no restrictions
Free verse
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In Elie Wiesel’s Night, the boy speaks of himself as “body, perhaps less than that even: a
starved stomach.”
Metaphor
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The FTD flower company incorporates Hermes and his Winged heels in their logo.
Allusion
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The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled across the sea
Personification
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An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned
Archetype
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The literal meaning of a word
Denotation
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A son says to his father, “The world revolves around me because I’m the sun.”
Pun
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The smallest metrical unit
Foot
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Scary Movie, Vampires Suck, and Animal Farm
Satire
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“Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody
breast.”
Alliteration
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The bruise on her arm was purple at top, blue at center, and the size of a dime.
Imagery
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Talking to a dead person
Apostrophe
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Someone says to the most disgusting student in class, “Oh you’re God’s gift to women,
you are!”
Verbal Irony
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Doodle has lots of personality and descriptive qualities
Round Character
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The Sniper changes at the end of the story
Dynamic Character
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We had to make an inference that Madame Loisel was selfish due to her actions and
words
Indirect Characterization
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The girl told me, “She passed away last night” instead of “She was murdered.”
Euphemism
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Iago and Othello serve as a contrast
Foil
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Two rhyming lines identical in length and structure
Couplet
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When the perspective is all-knowing and the reader is aware of what all the characters are thinking
Omniscient
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An example from Othello would be “Appearances can be deceiving.”
Theme
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Words like pow, bang, and splash
Onompatopoeia
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The person the reader is rooting for in the story
Protagonist
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Two consecutive stories going on at the same time
Subplot
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A three-line poem with 5-7-5 syllables
Haiku
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A fourteen line poem
Sonnet
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Writing that uses I, me, and myself
First Person
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A heart represents love
Symbol
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Ms. Smith, my History tutor
Epithet