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legend
a story handed down from the past Robin Hood
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litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite/ not bad
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meter
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry iambic: u / trochaic: / u dactylic: / u u anapestic: u u /
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mood
the prevailing feeling or emotioal climate of a literary work like in the story of "the boy in the striped pajamas" you will get a mood of anger, fear, hate, sadness, confusion, empathy, disgust.
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myth
atraditional anonymous story, told by a particular cultural group in order to explain a natural or cosmic phenomena/The Boogey man
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lyric
a short poem of songlike quality, words to a song Turn back the heart you've turned away Give back your kissing breath Leave not my love as you have left The broken hearts of yesterday But wait, be still, don't lose this way Affection now, for what you guess May be something more, could be less Accept my love, live for today.(James Deford)
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metaphor
a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two basically dissimiliar things /roadmap to peace
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monologue
an extended sppeech spoken by one character typically in a play whole other characters are present
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motivation
a driving force in a literary work to which the characters respond or not like how batmans motivation for awhile was to avenge his parents death
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narrative
a telling of either a true or fictious story/I was going to the store when a bank robber held me hostage
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narrator omniscent
this narrator stands outside the events but has special knowledge of happenings /god like knowlege
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naturalism
realism in novels with a view of human beings as victims of natural forces and social environment/ Jack London
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onomatopoeia
the use of words that initiate the sounds they refer to drip drip drip
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ode
a solemn tribute work or poem in honor of someone or something Blest as the immortal gods is he, The youth who fondly sits by thee, And hears and sees thee, all the while, Softly speaks and sweetly smile. (Sappho)
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oral literature
literature that is spoken and handed down by word of mouth poetry is often spoken and present like this
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oratory
the art of public speaking/speech and debate
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oxymoron
a figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms /living death
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parable
a brief tale with a moral lesson Human beings in a mob? Whats a mob to a king? Whats a king to a god? Whats a god to a nonbeliver?
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parallelism
the arrangement of similarly sonstructed clauses The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig
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paradox
a statement that seems self-contradictory but in reality expresses a possible truth/ I always lie
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parody
a mocking imitation of the stlye of a literary work that ridicules the habits of the author/Scary movie
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personification
a figure of speech by which something nonhuman is given human characteristics like the trees shake hands every day
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persuasion
A kind of speaking or writing that is intended to influence people's actions like a arguementative essay
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plot
the sequence of events in a story
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metonymy
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant/The pen is mightier than the sword