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30 Cards in this Set
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The time and place of a story, play, or narrative poem.
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Setting
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Where the story actually takes place.
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Physical setting
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Feeling about a subject created for a reader by the writer's selection for words and details.
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Emotional setting
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The vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
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Point of view
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The narrator is outside the story like an omniscient narrator-but tells the story from the vantage point of only one character.
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Third (Person) Limited
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Used in non-fiction to be factual and free of personal opinion and judgement.
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Third (Person) Objective
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The narrator knows everything that is going on in the story, but is outside the story, acting as a godlike observer who can tell us what all the characters are thinking .
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Third (Person) Omniscient
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The process by which the writer reveals the personality of the character.
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Characterization
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The central idea or insight of a work of literature.
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Theme
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a comparison of two things to show that they are alike
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Analogy
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A figure of speech the makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word such as LIKE, AS, or RESEMBLES
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Simile
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A figure of speech the makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things WITHOUT using a connective word such as LIKE, AS, or RESEMBLES
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Metaphor
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Metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human.
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Personification
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A reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, Myth, politics, or some field of knowledge.
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Allusion
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Language that appeals to the senses .
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Images/Imagery
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Words that name or state explicitly
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Details
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A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of a different word
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Pun
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The act or an example of substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive
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Euphemism
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A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something.
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech by which a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive term or vice versa
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Synecdoche
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The use of Circumlocution.
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Periphrasis
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A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, a deity, An abstract quality, or something nonhuman as if it were present and capable of responding.
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Apostrophe
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A person, place, or thing or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
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Symbol/Symbolism
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A word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in several works.
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Motif
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A pattern or model that serves as a basis for a different, but related version of a character, plot, image or theme.
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Archetype
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A contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality, between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected and what really happens, or between what appears to be true, and what is really true.
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Irony
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A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or opposing ideas.
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Oxymoron
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An apparent contradiction that is actually true.
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Paradox
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The situation plus the opinion or bias of the writer articulated in a sentence.
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Attitude
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The means by Which An attitude is conveyed or articulated in a word
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Tone
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