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Active verb

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verb that shows an action performed by the subject of the sentence

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Adjective

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Part of speech that helps describe a noun or pronoun

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Adverb

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modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb by giving it more meaning

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Agreement

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Parts of sentence that are alike in gender, number and person

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Antecedent

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Noun that is replaced with a pronoun

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Antonym

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two words that express opposing concepts

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Apposition

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a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows EX. My dog, Scout

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Auxiliary verb

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combines with another verb to help form tense (to have, to be, to do, will, shall, would, should, can, may, might, could)

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Case

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Form of noun or pronoun that shows it's relation to the other words in the sentence

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Nominative case

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a pronoun used in the subject or predicate noun of a sentence

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Possessive case

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a noun or pronoun used to show ownership

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Objective case

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When a noun or pronoun is used as the direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition

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Clause

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an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence

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Independent clause

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a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence

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Dependent clause

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a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone

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Comparison

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Change of form in adjective and adverbs to shoe in amount quantity, such as good, better, best

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Superlative

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Refers to the greater degree in the quality or quantity of one item or person with respect to two or more others, largest of the three

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Complex sentence

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a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause

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Compound-complex sentence

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two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

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Compound predicate

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Two or more predicates usually joined by and or or

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Compound sentence

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two or more independent clauses

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Compound subject

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two or more subjects joined together usually by \"and\" or \"or\" that share a common verb

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Conjunction

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Part of speech that connects words, phrases,or clauses

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Consonant

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A letter of the alphabet that is not a vowel

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Dash

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Punctuation mark that shows a pause or break in a sentence

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Direct object

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the object that receives the direct action of the verb

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Direct quotation

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Use of the exact words of the speaker

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First person

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pronouns and verbs that refer to the person or persons speaking

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Future tense

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a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

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Gender

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Classification of nouns and pronouns into three groups: masculine, feminine, and neuter

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Glossary

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a list of difficult words and their meanings that are in a book

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Homonym

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word that sounds alike another but are different in meaning and spelling

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Hyphen

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Mark (-) used to form a compound adjective, to join certain prefixes to words or to separate words into syllables

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Idiom

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Group of words that, taken together, differ in meaning from the individual words used separately

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Indirect object

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the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb

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Indirect quotation

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a paraphrased or reworded summary of someone's words

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Infinitive

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a form of a verb that generally appears with the word 'to' and acts as a noun, adjective, or adverb

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Interjection

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An independent word that expresses strong feeling

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Pronoun

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a word that takes the place of a noun

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Demonstrative pronoun

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this, that, these, those

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Personal pronoun

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I, me, we, you, he, they, she, it,

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Possessive pronoun

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a pronoun that shows ownership, mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs

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Relative pronoun

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That, which, what, who

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Proper pronoun

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takes the place of a noun and begins with a capitol letter, refers to a person, place or thing

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Interrogative sentence

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a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

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Intransitive verb

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An action verb that does not have a direct object

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Modifier

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a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

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Nominative case

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the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

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Noun

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a word that can serve as the subject or object of a verb

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Number

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Change in the form of a noun, adjective,or verb to show if the word is a singular or plural

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Object

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A noun or a person place or thing

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Objective case

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a pronoun used as a direct object, indirect object, object of the preposition

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Object of a preposition

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The pronoun follows a preposition such as to, form, for, against, by, between, or about.

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Parallelism

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the use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form

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Participle

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A verb that helps describes when the action took place

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Part of speech

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one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

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Passive

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the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb

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Past tense

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a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

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Person

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a grammatical category of pronouns and verb forms

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Phrase

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an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

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Plural

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grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units

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Possessive

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serving to express or indicate possession

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Predicate

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one of the two main constituents of a sentence

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Prefix

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a syllable or word that comes before a root word to change its meaning

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Preposition

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a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

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Present perfect tense

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when the action begins in the past but concludes in the present (It has taken a long time to write this book.)

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Present tense

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When an action is taking place in the present

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Root

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Basic part of a word without prefixes or suffixes that gives the main meaning of the word

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Run-on sentences

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A run-on sentence consists of two or more main clauses that are run together without proper punctuation

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Sentence

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Group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing an indecently complete thought

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Declarative sentence

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a sentence that makes a statement

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Interrogative sentence

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A sentence that asks a question

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Imperative sentence

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A sentence that gives a command

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Sentence fragment

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a group of words that is punctuated as if it was a complete sentence but that does not contain both a subject and a verb or does not express a complete thought.

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Singular

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Form of noun, pronoun, adjective, or verb that refers to one person, place or thing in a sentence

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Subject

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Part of the sentence that does the action or is spoken about

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Suffix

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Addition to the end of the word that adds to or changes it's meaning

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Syllable

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Smallest group of sounds, consisting of a vowel and one or more consonants that are pronounced as a unit

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Synonym

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Words that are similar in meaning

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Tense

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Time of an action, indicated by the verb, such as present, past, future, etc

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Usage

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Actual use of language by most of a population

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Verb

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Part of speech that indicates the action carried out by the subject or that tells something about the subject

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vowels

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letters representing the sounds, a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y

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ode

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a long, lyrical poem, usually serious or meditative in nature

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onomatopoeia

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using words that imitate the sound they denote - like hiss

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paradox

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a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

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parody

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writing that pokes fun at a serious work by using exaggeration or broad humor in imitation of the serious work

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personification

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the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

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poem

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a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

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refrain

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a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song

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repetition

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repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis

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Rhyme

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In poetry, agreement in the final sounds of two or more words at the ends of lines

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Rhythm

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In poetry and certain kinds of prose, patterns of stress or accent in the units that make up the verse or sentence

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Sarcasm

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Figure of speech that is harsh in tone expresses meaning by use of the opposite

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Satire

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Work that makes fun of a person, an idea, or a social custom or institution by stressing it's foolishness or lack of reasonableness

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Short story

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Brief work of fiction usually in a single setting, often relating a single incident

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Simile

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a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds, usually formed with 'like' or 'as'

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Soliloquy

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in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience

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Sonnet

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a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

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Stanza

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a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem

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Symbol

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Object that represents an idea, either psychological, philosophical, social, oe religious

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Tragedy

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Form of drama that has any or all of the following qualities, conflict of character that ends unhappily; a person of great and notable character who meets with a sudden fall because of his/her own weakness; a theme that appeals to our emotions of pity and fear

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Verse

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Single line of portrt

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Accent

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a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

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Alliteration

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use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse

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Allusion

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Offhand reference to a famous figure or event in literature or history

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Autobiography

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a biography of yourself

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Ballad

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a type of poem that is meant to be sung and is both lyric and narrative in nature

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Biography

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an account of the series of events making up a person's life

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Climax

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the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

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Comedy

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a humorous form of drama that often includes slapstick and satire

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Dialogue

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a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people

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Elegy

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a sad or mournful poem

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Epic

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constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic

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Epithet

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any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality

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Essay

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an analytic or interpretive literary composition

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Figure of speech

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an expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning

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Foot

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add a column of numbers

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Image

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a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

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Inversion

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(counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ll ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa

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Irony

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incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

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Limerick

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a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba

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Lyric

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the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number

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Metaphore

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compares 2 things as if they were the same without the words \"like\" or \"as\"

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Meter

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(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

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Myrh

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A legend, fable, tale, fantasy, fairytale.

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Narrative

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a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events

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Novel

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a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction

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