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20 Cards in this Set
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Ambiguity
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An element of uncertainty in a text, in which something can be interpereted in anumber of ways
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Autobiography
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An account of the writer's own life
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Biography
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An account of a person's life written or told by another person
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Chronological Order
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Order of events based on real time
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Chronology
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Timeline of events
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Dramatic Irony
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When readersor viewers know something the character don't
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Flash-Forward
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Scene interrupting present action to take the reader forward to something that hasn't happended
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Genre
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Category work of literature is classified under non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and drama
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Infrence/To Infer
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Drawing a conclusion based on good edvidence
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Irony
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Contrast between expectation and reality
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Non-Fiction
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Prose writing that deals with real people, things, events, and places
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Objective
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Unbiased not based opinion
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Ominiscient
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All-seeing. All-knowing
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Short Story
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Short, concentrated, fictional prose narrative. Generally under 10 pages/10,000 words
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Situational Irony
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when you expect one thing to happen but something very different happens instead
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Subjective
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personal opinion-not just fact
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Suspense
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feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about what's going to happen
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Unreliable Narrator
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biased narrator that might not tell the truth
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Verbal Irony
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When a speaker says one thing but means something different; sarcasm, understatment, overstatment
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Voice
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The writer's or speaker's distinative use of language in a text
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