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Figurative Language & Imagery
A figure of speech that directly equates two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as' (unlike simile). Metaphor create
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A direct comparison between two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as', acknowledging similarity rather than asser
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A figure of speech in which non-human entities (animals, objects, abstractions, natural phenomena) are given human chara
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A figure of speech employing extreme exaggeration for emphasis, emotional effect, or comedic impact. Hyperbole is delibe
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A rhetorical device in which contradictory or opposite terms are brought together in close proximity ('bitter sweet', 'l
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A statement or situation that appears logically contradictory or absurd on the surface yet may reveal a deeper truth whe
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A highly ingenious and surprising metaphor, often extended across multiple lines, comparing two seemingly unrelated thin
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A figure of speech employing deliberate understatement, often achieved by negating the opposite. Litotes creates emphasi
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Figurative Language & Imagery
The use of a mild, indirect, or vague expression in place of something harsh, blunt, or taboo. Euphemism can be used for
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A type of personification in which the natural environment is described as if it is responding to, reflecting, or sympat
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Figurative Language & Imagery
The use of descriptive language that appeals to the reader's senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell) to create vivid
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Figurative Language & Imagery
Descriptive language that evokes sounds and acoustic effects, including onomatopoeia, assonance, alliteration, and expli
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Figurative Language & Imagery
Descriptive language that creates mental pictures through references to colour, light, shadow, shape, and visual composi
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A sudden, often comic descent from elevated, solemn, or dignified expression to something trivial, commonplace, or ridic
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Figurative Language & Imagery
A structural and rhetorical device in which two contrasting ideas, images, characters, or scenes are placed adjacent to
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Figurative Language & Imagery
The quality of evoking emotional response, particularly sympathy, pity, or sadness. Pathos is created through emotionall
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Narrative Structure & Voice
The perspective or point of view through which a narrative is presented to the reader. Can be first person (I/we), secon
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A third-person narrative voice with complete knowledge of all characters' internal states, thoughts, and motivations, as
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A third-person narrative voice whose knowledge and perception are limited to a single character's viewpoint, consciousne
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A narrator who misleads the reader through deliberate deception, bias, forgetfulness, or limited understanding. The read
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A narrative structure that interweaves two distinct storylines, perspectives, or timeframes, moving between them through
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A narrative technique in which the chronological sequence is interrupted to present events from the past. Flashbacks can
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A narrative technique in which earlier events, imagery, or language subtly anticipate later developments. Foreshadowing
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A narrative structure that is deliberately broken, non-linear, or discontinuous, presented in fragments rather than chro
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A narrative technique in which a story begins not at the chronological beginning but in the middle of events ('in the mi
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A structural pattern in which a text ends by returning to or echoing its opening image, theme, or situation, creating cl
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A concluding section that follows the main action of a drama, narrative, or poem, typically providing closure, reflectio
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Narrative Structure & Voice
An opening section of a drama, narrative, or poem that precedes the main action. A prologue may provide background infor
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A narrative technique that attempts to represent the unfiltered, continuous flow of a character's thoughts, often withou
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A literary form in which the narrative is conveyed through letters, diary entries, emails, or other written documents ra
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Narrative Structure & Voice
A sudden moment of profound insight or realisation in which a character (or reader) understands something previously hid
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Poetic Structure & Form
A pair of consecutive lines in a poem that rhyme with each other. Couplets can be closed (complete thought within two li
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Poetic Structure & Form
A four-line stanza, the most common unit in English poetry. Quatrains can follow various rhyme schemes (AABB, ABAB, ABCB
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Poetic Structure & Form
An eight-line unit in poetry, most significantly the opening section of a Petrarchan sonnet. The octave typically presen
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Poetic Structure & Form
A six-line unit or stanza, most commonly known as the concluding section of a Petrarchan sonnet (after the eight-line oc
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Poetic Structure & Form
A three-line stanza or grouping in poetry. Tercets can have various rhyme schemes (ABA, AAA, etc.) and appear in forms l
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Poetic Structure & Form
A sudden turn, shift, or change in direction within a poem's argument, tone, emotion, or perspective. In sonnets, the vo
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Poetic Structure & Form
A highly structured poetic form consisting of 14 lines, typically in iambic pentameter, with a prescribed rhyme scheme a
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Poetic Structure & Form
A poetic technique in which a grammatical phrase or clause continues beyond the end of a line, forcing the reader to con
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Rhetorical Devices
A narrative form in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract concepts or ideas, often moral or politica
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Rhetorical Devices
A rhetorical device in which the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or lines. Anapho
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Rhetorical Devices
A rhetorical device in which the same word or words are repeated at the end of successive clauses or lines. Epistrophe c
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Rhetorical Devices
A rhetorical pattern in which three similar elements are presented in sequence. Tricolon creates rhythm and emphasis, wi
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
A phonetic device in which the same consonant sound is repeated at the beginning of words or stressed syllables in close
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
A phonetic device in which vowel sounds are repeated within or across words in proximity, creating a musical or emphatic
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words, distinct from rhyme because the following consonants differ. Assonance c
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
The repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words in close proximity, creating sonic patterns and emphasi
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
A specific type of alliteration in which sibilant consonants (s, z, sh, ch, j sounds) are repeated, creating a whisperin
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
The most dominant English poetic metre, consisting of five iambic feet (unstressed-stressed syllables) per line, creatin
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
The systematic pattern of stressed (/) and unstressed (∪) syllables that creates the rhythmic foundation of a poem. Metr
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
Poetry written in iambic pentameter without a regular rhyme scheme. Blank verse is the dominant form of English dramatic
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
A modern poetic form that abandons regular metre and rhyme scheme, allowing poets to structure lines according to meanin
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
A pause or metrical break within a poetic line, often marked by punctuation (comma, colon, semicolon) or created through
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in a poem, conventionally marked with letters (ABAB, AABB, etc.). Rhy
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
A visual or spelling rhyme where words appear to rhyme on the page but do not sound identical when pronounced. Eye rhyme
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
A rhyme using words with similar but not identical sounds, also called slant rhyme, near rhyme, or imperfect rhyme. Half
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Sound, Rhythm & Metre
Rhyming that occurs within a line of poetry or between words in the same or nearby lines, rather than at line ends. Inte
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Style, Tone & Genre
The specific word choices made by a writer, encompassing vocabulary, register, and connotative values. Diction is fundam
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Style, Tone & Genre
The degree of formality or informality in language use, ranging from highly formal (academic, legal, ceremonial) to info
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Style, Tone & Genre
The emotional atmosphere or prevailing sentiment that a text creates in the reader through imagery, tone, language choic
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Style, Tone & Genre
The writer's attitude, perspective, or emotional stance toward the subject matter, which is conveyed through word choice
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Style, Tone & Genre
The grammatical structure and arrangement of words, phrases, and clauses within sentences. Syntax shapes pace, emphasis,
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Style, Tone & Genre
A recurring element (image, object, phrase, character type, action) that appears throughout a literary work, developing
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Style, Tone & Genre
The practice of using concrete things (objects, colours, animals, settings) to represent abstract concepts, emotions, or
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Style, Tone & Genre
A narrative form (novel or long poem) that traces a protagonist's development from youth or immaturity to adulthood or w
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Style, Tone & Genre
Characteristic elements of Gothic literature including dark atmospheres, mysterious or supernatural events, decaying set
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Style, Tone & Genre
A narrative style that treats magical, fantastical, or impossible events as ordinary occurrences within a realistic sett
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Style, Tone & Genre
A Victorian literary genre emphasising emotional intensity, plot twists, shocking revelations, and sensational events de
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Tragedy & Drama
A situation in which the reader or audience possesses information that the character(s) does not, creating tension, humo
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Tragedy & Drama
A poetic form in which a single speaker addresses an implied listener or audience, often revealing character through the
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Tragedy & Drama
The sense of suspense, conflict, or uncertainty that drives audience or reader engagement. Dramatic tension arises from
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Tragedy & Drama
In dramatic texts, a speech in which a character alone on stage (or believing themselves alone) speaks their inner thoug
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Tragedy & Drama
According to Aristotle, the emotional cleansing or release experienced by an audience witnessing tragic events. Through
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Tragedy & Drama
In classical Greek drama, a group of characters (typically representing citizens, elders, or a collective perspective) w
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Tragedy & Drama
In classical tragedy, the protagonist's fatal flaw or error of judgment that leads inevitably to their downfall. Hamarti
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Tragedy & Drama
Extreme pride, arrogance, or overconfidence, particularly in classical tragedy. Hubris represents an excess of self-rega
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Tragedy & Drama
Retribution, punishment, or ruin that follows from hubris or transgression, often presented as inevitable or divinely or
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Tragedy & Drama
In dramatic structure, a sudden and complete reversal of the protagonist's situation from good to bad (or bad to good),
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Tragedy & Drama
A central character in tragedy who is noble or admirable but is brought to ruin by a tragic flaw (hamartia), circumstanc
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Tragedy & Drama
In tragedy, the moment of recognition or discovery in which the protagonist (and audience) understands crucial truths, o
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Tragedy & Drama
The final section of a narrative in which conflicts are resolved, loose ends are tied up, and consequences of climactic
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