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96 Cards in this Set
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Action |
What a character does |
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Ambiguity |
Word/phrase/statement with more than one meaning |
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Backstory |
Experiences of a character or circumstances of an event that happened before the story |
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Character |
A character that undergoes a specific change in the story |
Ebeneezer Scrooge |
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Climax |
Major turning point in a story |
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Complication |
Develops the central conflict |
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Conflict |
Two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist |
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Denouement |
resolution of an issue in the plot in fiction |
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Description |
Text that explains the features of something |
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Dialogue |
Conversational passage |
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Empathy |
The state of total identification with another's situation, condition, and thoughts. |
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Epiphany |
Character has a realization and sees new light in the story |
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Exposition/narration |
Introduces the background in the story |
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Flashback |
Interruption in the story to insert something from the past |
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Flashback |
Interruption in the story to insert something from the past |
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Foreshadowing |
A warning of a future event |
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Imagery |
Vivid and descriptive language |
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Indirect dialogue/discourse |
Third person narration that slips in and out of characters' consciousness |
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In medians res |
Narrative that begins in a crucial point of action |
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Verbal irony |
Occurs when someone says something but really means something else |
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Dramatic irony |
Character thinks one thing is true but viewer knows better |
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Melodrama |
Dramatic literary work to appeal to emotions |
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Mood |
Atmosphere of a work |
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Motivation |
Characters willingness to do something |
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Narration |
A story told from a certain point of view |
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Narrator |
Tells the story |
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Omniscience |
Third person narrative knows thoughts and feelings of every character |
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Pace |
Moves the story foward |
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Plot |
Sequence of events in a story |
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Point of view |
What a story is told from 1st- I and we 2nd- you 3rd- he, she, it, they |
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Protagonist |
Central leading character |
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Antagonist |
Opposes the main character |
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Realism |
Ambiguous term with two meanings |
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Scene |
Dramatic sequence taking place |
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Setting |
Where the story takes place |
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Style |
Authors word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement |
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Structure |
Plot and setting |
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Symbolism |
Object representing another |
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Theme |
Central message of a work |
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Tone |
Author's attitude toward a work or audience |
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Time- linear vs. nonlinear |
Things come out of chronological order in nonlinear |
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Voice |
The author's style |
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Alliteration |
Same beginning sounds |
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Alliteration |
Same beginning sounds |
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Archetype |
Typical character in a typical situation |
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Assonance |
Repetition of the vowel sound |
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Ballad |
Narrative poem |
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Blank verse |
Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter |
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Caesura |
Interruption in a line |
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Cliché |
Over-used idea |
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Conceit |
Compares two unlike things-extended metaphor |
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Couplet |
Two rhyming lines in a verse with the same meter |
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Dropped line |
Line broken into two lines, but the second line is indented to match the first line |
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Dropped line |
Line broken into two lines, but the second line is indented to match the first line |
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Sonnet |
14 lines, 10 syllables, written in iambic pentameter |
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End-Stopped line |
Line is its own phrase or unit |
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Enjambed/run on line |
the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza |
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Figurative language |
Meaning different then the literal meaning |
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Foot |
Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Formal verse |
Follows rules regarding stanza length, meter, or rhyme patterns |
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Free verse |
Poetry that doesn't rhyme or have regular meter |
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Hymnal verse |
Usually a religious song written to praise something |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration |
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Understatement |
Present something as not as worse as it is |
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Understatement |
Present something as not as worse as it is |
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Internal rhyme |
Rhyming that occurs within the line |
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Iambic foot |
Unstressed/ stressed |
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Line break |
Forces the reader to pause for greater effect |
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Metaphor |
Two unlike objects are compared |
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Meter |
repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. The meter of a poem emphasizes the musical quality of the language and often relates directly to the subject matter of the poem. Each unit of meter is known as a foot. |
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Mixed metaphor |
Mingling of one metaphor with another right after |
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Motif |
Reoccurring image that helps develop the theme |
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Narrative poetry |
Poetry that uses characters- ballads and epics |
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Obscurity |
Refers to other poems |
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Onomatopoeia |
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ) |
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Paradox |
Contrary to expectations |
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Parody |
Imitate another work |
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Pentameter |
5 strong metrical feet |
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Persona |
When a poet speaks in 1st person |
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Personification |
Characteristics of a human in something nonhuman |
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Repetition |
Words or phrases repeated for effect |
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Rhyme |
Repetition of similar sounds |
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Rhythm |
Long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables |
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Scansion |
Read the poem and count that feet and stressed |
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Simile |
Comparing two things using like or as |
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Speaker |
Narrative voice in a poem |
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Spondee |
a foot consisting of two stressed syllables |
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Stanza |
Having a fixed length in a line of four or more lines |
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Stress |
Emphasis falls on certain syllables |
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Substitution |
"DUM da" Unlike the regular "da DUM" |
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Tenor and vehicle |
Components of a metaphor- Tenor being the concept and vehicle being the image that carries the comparison |
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Tetrameter |
A verse of four measures |
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Texture |
Concrete or physical elements- includes metaphor, imagery, rhyme |
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Trochee |
Metrical foot consisting of two syllables-one stressed followed by an unstressed |
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Unaccented syllable |
Pronounced with little or no stress |
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Villanelle |
nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain |
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