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20 Cards in this Set
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ambiguity
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an element of uncertaintly in a text, in which something can be interpreted in a number of diff ways
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autobiography
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an account of the writers own life
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biography
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an acount of a perssons life, written or told by another
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chronological prder
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order of events based on real time
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dramatic irony
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when the audience or the reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know
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flash back
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scene in a movie,play,short story.novel, or narrativce poem that interupts the current action of the plot to flash backward and show/tell what happened earlier
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flash forward
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scene in a movie,play,short story.novel, or narrativce poem that interupts the current action of the plot to shift into the future
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genre
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the category that a piece of literature is classified under: nonfiction,fiction, poetry, myth, drama
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inference to infer
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drawing a conclusion based on good evidence
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irony
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contrast between expectation and reality- between what is sai and what is really meant- between what is expected to happen and what really happens
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nonfiction
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prose wrting that deals with real people, places , events,and writing
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objective
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unbiased an dnot based on opinion
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omniscent
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the person telling the story knows everything abou the charcaters an their problems
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point of view
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vantage point from which the writer tells the story. in broad terms there are three points of view: omniscent, first person, third person
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short story
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short concentrated, fictional prose narrative
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situational irony
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when there is a contast between what would seem appropriate and what really happens or what happens or when there is contraiction between them
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subjective
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personal opinion not based on fact
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suspense
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uncertainty or anxiety the reader feel about what is going to happen next in the story
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third person limitred point of view
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hte narrator who plays no part in the story, zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character
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unreliable narrator
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narrator who might be biased, may not be telling the truth, maybe cant tell the truth
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