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61 Cards in this Set
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Fiction |
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Symbol |
Person, place, or thing that means something beyond its literal sense. |
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Tone |
Attitude |
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Setting |
Time or place of literary work |
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Diction |
Vocabulary |
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Dialect |
Variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group |
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Fiction |
Latin ficio |
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Anatagonist |
Opposes the protagonist |
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Protagonist |
Central Character |
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First Person Narrator |
Participant |
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Third Person Narrator |
Nonparticipant |
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Allegory |
Points to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas |
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Climax |
Moment of greatest intensity in a story |
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Genre |
Conventional combination of literary form and subject matter |
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Foreshadowing |
Plot construction |
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Epiphany |
Moment of insight |
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Developing/ Dynamic Character |
Character that grows or changes in some significant way |
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Denouement |
Resolution or conclusion |
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Theme |
Recurring subject |
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Plot |
Particular arrangement of actions that unfold in a narrrative |
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Narrator |
Voice or character that provides the reader with information and insight |
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Irony |
Discrepancy of meaning is masked beneath the surface of the language. |
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Personification |
When an animal or an abstract term is endowed with human characteristics. |
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Limited Omniscience |
Third-person limited point of view |
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Stock Character |
Stereotypical Character |
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Dramatic |
Terms |
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Aside |
Few words spoken in an undertone or to the audience |
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Deus Ex Machine |
"A god from a machine" |
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High Comedy |
Comic genre evoking so-called intellectual or thoughtful laughter THROUGH EMOTIONS |
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Low Comedy |
Arousing laughter THROUGH CLOWNING |
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Monologue |
extended speech by a single character |
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Motivation |
What a character in a drama wants |
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Proscenium Arch |
"standing in front of the scenery" |
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Recognition |
ignorance gives way to knowledge |
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Soliloquy |
Speech by character where he/she utters their thoughts. |
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Melodrama |
Stage play featuring background music |
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Katharsis/Catharsis |
Translated as purgation or purification |
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Drama |
Designed for performance in the theater |
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Hamartia |
"error" |
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Comedy |
Literary work aimed at amusing an audience |
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Picture-frame Stage |
Sixteenth century Italian playhouse |
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Romantic Comedy |
Comic drama in which the plot focuses on one or more pairs of young lovers |
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Tragicomedy |
Type of drama that combines elements of both tragedy and comedy |
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Flexible Theater |
black box |
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Theater of the Absurd |
Post WWII European genre |
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Poetry |
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Blank Verse |
Most common and well-known meter of unrhymed poetry. |
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Caesura |
Pause within a line of verse |
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Couplet |
Two-line stanza in poetry |
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Foot |
Measurement in metrical poetry |
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Meter |
Recurrent, regular, rhythmic pattern |
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Rhyme Scheme |
Recurrent pattern of rhyme within an fixed form |
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Spondee |
Metrical foot containing two stressed syllables |
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Verse |
Single line of poetry |
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Stanza |
Poetry's equivalent to the paragraph prose |
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Sonnet |
Traditional widely used verse form for love poetry |
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Iambic Pentameter |
Most common meter in English verse-five iambic feet per line. |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of two or more constant sounds of prose |
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Assonance |
Two or more VOWEL sounds |
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Closed Forms |
Generic term |
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Free Verse |
Organized its lines without meter. |
