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34 Cards in this Set
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The emotional atmosphere of a work
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Mood
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A character's incentive or reason for behaving in a certain manner; that which impels a character to act.
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Motivation
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A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events.
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Myth
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A story or narrated account.
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Narrative
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An inference that does not follow logically from the premises.
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Non sequitur
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A narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feeling of the characters.
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Omniscient Narrator
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The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms.
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Parallelism
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A restatement of a text in a different form of in different words, often for the purpose of clairity.
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Paraphrase
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A comment that interrupts the immediate subject, often to qualify or explain.
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Paranthetical
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Characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship.
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Pedantic
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A strong verbal denunciation
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Phillipic
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The use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural.
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Polysyndeton
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A play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings.
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Puns
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The art of presenting ideas in a clear, effective, and persuasive manner.
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Thetoric
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A question requiring thought to answer or understand; a puzzle or conundrum.
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Riddle
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A term describing a character or literary work that reflects the characteristics of Romanticism, the literary movement beginning in the 18th century that stressed emotion, imagination, and individualism.
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Romantic
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A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work.
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Round Character
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Harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule.
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Sarcasm
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A person or group that bears the blame for another
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Scapegoat
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A real or fictional episode; a division of an act in a play.
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Scene
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A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause.
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Simple Sentence
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Nonstandard grammatical usage; a violation of grammatical rules.
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Solecism
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An artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control.
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surrealism
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A construction in which one word is used in two different senses. (After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")
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syllepsis
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A three-part deductive arguement in which a conclusion is based o na major premise an da minor premise. (A=B, B=C, so A=C).
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syllogism
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Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another
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synesthesia or synaesthesia
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Needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding.
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tautology
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The primary position taken by a writer or speaker.
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thesis
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A work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle and which ends in ruin or destruction.
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tragedy
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A work in three parts, each of which is a complete work in itself.
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trilogy
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Overused and hackneyed
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trite
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The point in a work in which a very significant change occurs
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turning point
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The cusomary way language or its elements are used
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usage
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The everyday speech of a particular country or region, often involving nonstandard usage.
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vernacular
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