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Alliteration: is the practice of beginning several consecutive or
neighboring words with the same sound e.g "The twisting
twinkled below"
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Allusion: is a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical
person, place or things
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Analysis: A detailed examination of the elements or structure of
something.
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Body Paragraph: does the real work of the essay, developing,
supporting, explaining, and proving the thesis.
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Characterization: is the process of presenting the different
aspects of character and personality of someone in a novel or
short story or any other narrative depiction of human beings
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Conclusion: A summary that states if your hypothesis was
correct or incorrect and what the investigation showed, based
on observations and data.
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Connotation: is said to be the suggested or implied meaning of
words to produce a harmonious effect
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Denotation: is the strict, literal, or factual, or factual meaning of
a word or phrace.
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Details: are the facts revealed by the author or speaker that
support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose.
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Point of view: "a way the events of a story are conveyed to the
reader it is the "vantage point" from which the narrative is
passed from author to the reader.
In the first- person point of view the narrator is a character in
the story. Using the pronoun "I" the narrator tells us his or her
own experiences but cannot reveal with certainty any other
character's private thoughts.
In the omniscient point of view the person telling the story or
narrator knows everything that's going on in the story.
In the limited third-person point of view the narrator is outside
the story- like an omniscient narrator- but tells the story from
the vantage point of one character."
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Propaganda: Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or
against a cause.
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Protagonist: is the central character of a drama, novel, short
story, or narrative poem. Conversely, the antagonist is the
person or force that opposes the protagonist
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Pun: A play on words , or a joke based on words with several
meanings or wirds that sound alike but have different meanings
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Satire: is a form of writing that ridicules for the sake of
remedying them.
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Setting: is the time and place in wich events in a short story,
novel, play, or narrative poem take place.
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Simile: is a comparison of two different things or ideas through
the ise of the words "like" or "as". It is a definitely stated
comarison in which the auther say one thing is like another
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Structure: is the framework or oranization of a literary selection.
Fir example, the structure if fiction is usually determined by plot
and by chapter division; the structure of drama depods upon its
divsion into acts and scenes: the structure of an essay
depends upon the organization of ideas; the structure of poetry
is determined by its rhyme scheme and stanzatic forn
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Style: is the writer's characteristice manner of employing
langage
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Suspense: is the quality of a short story, novel, play or
narrative poem that makes the reader or audience incertain or
tense about the outcome of events
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Symbol: An object or action in a literary work that means more
than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
Literary Analysis: is the practice of looking closely at small
parts to see how they affect the whole. Literary analysis
focuses on how plot/structure, character, setting, and many
other techniques are used by the author to create meaning.
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Theme: A central message or insight into life revealed through a
literary work
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Thesis: Focus statement of an essay; premise statement upon
which the point of view or discussion in the essay is based.
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Metaphor: A comparison without using like or as
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Mood: How the reader feels about the text while reading.
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Narrative: Any literary work that tells a story
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Paraphrase: A restatement of a text or passage in other words
(your own words) while still giving credit to the original source
Tone: is the writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject,
character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's
choice of words and detail. Tone can be serious, humorous,
sarcastic, indignant, objective, etc.
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Topic Sentence: A sentence, most often appearing at the
beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea
and often unites it with the work's thesis.
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Transition: A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and
carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to
paragraph
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Understatement: the presentation of something as being
smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.
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Dialogue: is the speech of characters in any kind of narrative,
story, ot play
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Diction: A speaker or writer's choice of words (formal, informal,
colloquial, full of slang, poetic, ornate, plain, abstract, concrete,
etc.); diction has a powerful effect on tone
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Figurative Language: A form of language use in which writers
and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning
of their words.
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Flashback: is scene that interrupts the action of a work to show
a previous event
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Foreshadowing: is the use of hints or clues in literature to
suggest future action.
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Hook: The first sentence or question in an essay that is
designed to grab the reader's attention
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Hyerbole: is a deliberate exaggeration in literature
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Imagery: Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound,
smell, touch, taste)
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Irony: A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and
what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen
and what actually does happen.
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Personification: A figure of speech in which an object or animal
is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes
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Plot: Sequence of events in a story