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34 Cards in this Set
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Genre |
a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities inform, style, or subject matter. Classification in which a piece of work belongs |
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Prose |
Ordinary form of written language |
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Plot |
the main events of a story |
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Exposition |
First element of plot |
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Setting |
time and place before action |
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Initial Incident |
event that sets plot in motion |
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Conflict |
a struggle between two forces |
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Rising action |
series of events leads to climax |
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Climax |
turning point |
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Falling Action |
events that resolve |
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Resolution |
Ending of conclusion |
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Character |
central to the action of a story |
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Protagonist |
the leading character |
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Antagonist |
the enemy of protagonist |
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Narrator |
person who tells story |
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Point of View |
the narrator's position in relation of how the story is told |
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First Person |
referring to your mind what you are doing in you point of view |
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Third Person Omniscient |
the narrator know all characters thoughts and feelings |
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Third Person Objective |
a narrator knows what is going due to the actions of the characters |
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Allusion |
refers to literature that is classified |
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Analogy |
a similarity between two things that are comparison or contrasting |
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Metaphor |
a figure the two things without like or as |
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Simile |
comparing two unlike things that uses like or as |
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Personification |
the giving of human characteristics to non-living things |
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Literal Language |
of writer means what he/she said |
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Figurative Language |
creative language |
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Irony |
literary device that shows the difference between appearance vs. reality |
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Verbal Irony |
one person says one thing and means the other |
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Dramatic Irony |
inherited audience knows |
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Situational Irony |
opposite happens than what you said |
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Imagery |
to represent objects that appeal to the five senses |
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Mood |
a set of writer's attitude. |
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Repitition |
repeating for emphasizing |
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Parrellesism |
is the balance with one or more clause |
