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12 Cards in this Set
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Theme
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a central message or insight into life revealed through the leterary work, a generalization about people or about life that is communicated through the literary work
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Style
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Genre or literary form use. For example: Poetry, Novel, Novelette, Short stroy, Prose, Drama
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Point of view
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The perspective from which a story is told
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Character
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a person or an animal who takes part in the action of the literary work
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Protagonist
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the main character, the most important character in the story
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Antagonist
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character who opposes the main character
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Irony
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the general term for literary techniques that protray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention
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verbal irony
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words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant
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dramactic irony
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a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true
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irony of a situation
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an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of characters, the reader, or the audience
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Symbolism
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use of symbols that stand for or represent something else, an object that serves as a symbol has its own meaning but also represents abstract ideas
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Setting
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the time and place of the action in a literary work
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