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18 Cards in this Set
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mood |
feeling created by the writer's diction |
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tragic hero |
the main character with a tragic flaw in his character which will lead to his downfall |
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antihero |
central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes |
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external conflict |
man v man, man v nature, man v society |
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internal conflict |
conflict that is internal, involving opposing forces within a person's mind |
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tone |
the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience, revealef through diction, figurative language, and organization |
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indirect characterization |
author reveals what character is like by showing how character dresses, looks, acts, thoughts/feelings, effect on other ppl |
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direct characterization |
author tells us directly what the character is like |
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allegory |
story or poem which has 2 meanings, a literal one and a symbolic one |
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allusion |
reference to someone/something known from history or other branch of culture |
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apostrophe |
calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing |
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colloquialism |
a word or phrase used in everyday conversation and is informal for formal situations. ex) "gonna go", "hes out of his head" |
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cacophony |
harsh sounding words |
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connotation |
the emotional associations that have become attached to a word or phrase |
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denotation |
word's strict dictionary definition |
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foil |
character who acts as contrast to another character |
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ambiguity |
suggesting 2 or more different, sometimes conflicting, meanings in a work. can be interpreted in more than one way. this is done on purpose usually |
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analogy |
comparison made between 2 things to show how they are alike |
