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| Narrative form in which characters and actions have meaning outside themselves; characters are usually personifications of abstract qualities. | ||
| Comparison of two things that are alike in some respects. | ||
| A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. "Early to bed and early to rise/Make a man health, wealthy, and wise." | ||
| A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature. | ||
| A novel or story whose theme is the moral or psychological growth of the main character. | ||
| Bringing to an end or conclusion. | ||
| The reasoning process by which a conclusion is drawn form set of premises and contains no more facts than these premises. | ||
| Intended for teaching or to teach a moral lesson. | ||
| Quote set at the beginning of a literary work or at its divisions to set the tone or suggest a theme. | ||
| Substitution of a milder or less direct expression for one that is harsh or blunt. e.g. using "passed away" for "dead". | ||
| Retrospection, where an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronolgy of a narrative. | ||
| Aristotle's term for the main character's tragic flaw or error in judgement. | ||
| Refers to opening a story in the middle of the action, requiring filling in past details by exposition or flashback. | ||
| The implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another unlike itself without the use of a verbal signal such as like or as. One thing is pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy between them. | ||
| The "character" who "tells" the story. | ||
| A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true. | ||
| The view the reader gets of the action and characters in a story. | ||
| Repeating or repeated action. | ||
| The time and place of the action in a story, poem, or play. | ||
| The way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. It is sentence structure and how it influences the way a reader perceives a piece of writing. | ||
| Deliberate expression of an idea or event as less important than it actually is or was. | ||
| a play on words |
