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20 Cards in this Set
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Allusion
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Indirect reference to something historical or biblical etc.
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Protagonist
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The cheif actor in any literary work. Usually heros
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Antagonist
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A character or force that opposes the protagonist
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Round Character
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A many-sided character, one who does not always act predictably.
antonym - flat character |
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Flat Character
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One dimensional character
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Archetype
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A theme, image, motif, or pattern that occurs so often in lterary works it seems to be universal.
Ex. dark forest, the sun |
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Didactic
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Pertaining to teaching; having a moral value
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Genre
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Kind or type.
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Four Major genres of literature
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Non-fiction
fiction poetry drama |
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Hyperbole
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Figurative language using overstatement
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Image/Imagery
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Imagery is established by language that appeals to the senses, especially sight
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Narrator
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one who is telling the story
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Unreliable Narrator
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a narrator whose report a reader cannot accept at face value, perhaps because the narrator is naive or is too deeply implicated in the action to report it objectively
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Personification
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Giving a non human thing human-like characteristics
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Setting
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Where the story takes place
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Stream of Consciousness
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The presentation of a character's unrestricted flow of thought, often with free associations, and often without punctuation.
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Symbol
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person, object, action, or situation that, charged with meaning, suggests another thing.
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Theme
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Qhat the work is about; an underlying idea of a work.
A conception of human experience suggested by the concrete details |
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Tone
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prevailing attitude as percieved by the reader
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Fable
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short story with easily grasped moral.
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