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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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Year-by-year record of important events until the 12th century. started by Alfred the Great.
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Alliteration
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Repititon of inital constant sound
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Allusion
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Reference to somehting outside of a work
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Apostrophe
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Addressing someone or something that cannot respond
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Aside
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Someone on stage says something to the audience and the others on stage cannot hear it.
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Leaping and Lingering
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Development of the storyline
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Blank verse
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No rhyme. iambic pentameter
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Caesura
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Seeming contradiction
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Cartias vs. cupiditas
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True love vs. fleshy love
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Conciet
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Extended metaphor
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Didactic
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Intended to teach a lesson
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Dramatic irony
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The audience's knowledge surpasses that of the characters
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Frame tale
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Story within a story
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Icarus
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Tried to fly, wings melted when he got to close to the sun, fell to his death.
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Kenning
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A picturesque word-compound
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