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51 Cards in this Set
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protagonist
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Main character
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Antagonist
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something that opposes the protagonist
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plot
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the main events of a work
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plot diagram
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the exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, resolution.
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Indirect characterization
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the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the characters speech, actions, appearance, etc,
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Direct Characterization
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the process by which the perosnality of a fictitius character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases or epithets
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narrative hook
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is a device that hooks the readers attention
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Internal conflict
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struggle within someone (man vs. himself)
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External conflict
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struggle against outside forces (man vs. nature)
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first person point of view
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point of view where the narrater does participate in the action of the story
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Third person point of view
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point of view where the narrator does not participate in the action.
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Omniscient
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all knowing point of view
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limited
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a narrator that is limited to one person point of view
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Setting
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the time,place, and circumstances in a narrative
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mood
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a literary element that evokes certain feelings in readers throughout the work
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Tone
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The writers attitude toward the subject
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flashback
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interrupts the current narrative to insert past events to provide background to current events
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Theme
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main idea or meaning to a literary work
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Enjambment
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Where sentences continues for many lines
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Rhyme scheme
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the order in which particular words rhyme
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imagery
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the mental pictures that readers experience with a passage of literature.
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consonance
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repetition of ending consonant sounds
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assonance
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the repetition of vowels that are close to each other
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alliteration
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repeating a consonant sound in close proximity to others or beginning several words with the same vowel sound.
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Lyric poem
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a poem that is ls song like
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narrative poem
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poem that tells a story
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Iambic Pentameter
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5 unstressed/stressed syllables
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sonnet
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14 line poem, each made of 10 syllables stressed/unstressed
italian-octave consisting of two quatrains and a sestet English-3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet |
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repititon
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repeats the same words or phrases to make an idea clearer
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stanzas
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A group of lines set off from the other lines in a poem
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lines
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a single line of poetry
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slant/approximate rhyme
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the words are spelled the same but dont exactly sound the same
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End Rhyme
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the ending sounds of lines rhyme
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Synecdoche
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part for the whole or vice versa
"give us this day our daily bread'' |
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Metonymy
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one term for antoher with which it is commonly associated or closely related.
the pen is mightier than the sword the crown (referring to the King and Queen) |
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epithet
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Adjective expressing as a descriptive device
Alexander the great rosy-fingered dawn |
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epitaph
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final statement by a character before death
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antithesis
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two ideas are directly opposed
It was a blessing and a curse |
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Chiasmus
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inversion of the second of two parallel structures.
He went to the country, to the town went she |
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Juxtaposition
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the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions,settings, phrases or wordsside by side in order to compare/contrast the two
set up a character as being popular with the the opposite sex, then show he or she is a virgin |
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Epistrophe
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses
the government is of the people, by the people, for the people |
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Epanelepsis
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repetiton at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause
next time there wont be a next time |
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anaphora
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the repetition of introductory words or phrases for effect.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity |
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anadiplosis
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repetition of a prominent word as the last and first word of two phrases or clauses , it ties the sentence to its surroundings
the mountains looked on marathon-- and marathon looks on the sea |
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hyperbole
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obvious exaggeration for emphasis of effect
I have a million things to do today |
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Polysyndeton
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Deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis-- to highlight quantify or mass of detail or to create a flowing, continuous sentence pattern.
the meal was huge-- my mother fixed green beans and ham and apple pie and green pickled tomatoes and ambrosia salad and all manner of fine country food-- but no mater how i tried, i could not consume it to her satisfaction. |
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asyndeton
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deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses.
i came, i saw, i conquered |
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Zuegma
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the use of a verb that has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings.
he stole both her car and her heart that fateful night. |
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stichomythia
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dialogue in which the endings and beginnings of each line eho each other, taking on a new meaning with eahc new line
Harriet: Now Mother , whats the matter? Queen: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. Hamlet: mother , you have my father much offended. Queen: come, come, you anser with an idle tongue Hamlet: Go, go you question with a wicked tongue |
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TPCASTT
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title, paragraph, connotation, attitude, shift, title again, theme
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DIDLS
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diction, imagery, details, language, sentence structure
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