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31 Cards in this Set
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allusion
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a reference to another piece of literature
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mood
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is the emotional attitude the author takes towards their subject
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oxymoron
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putting two contradictory words together
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exposition
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written explanation of a specific subject
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tragic hero
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central literary figure of an anti-hero that is prevented from acting
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pathos
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a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, or sorrow
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personification
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a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics
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anaphora
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the use of a word as a regular grammatical substitute for a preceding word or group of words
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assonance
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repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words
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quest
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a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something
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foreshadowing
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to show or indicate beforehand
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antagonist
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character working against the protagonist
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falling action
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the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
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simile
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comparison of two unlike things using like or as
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hubris
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Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance
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consonance
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The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern
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overstatement
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to state too strongly; exaggerate
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characterization
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the creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters.
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rising action/complication
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a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest.
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resolution/denouement
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the final resolution of the intricacies of a plot, as of a drama or novel.
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first person
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the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved.
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pun
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A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
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imagery
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the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively
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hyperbole
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obvious and intentional exaggeration.
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alliteration
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the commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group
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climax
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a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot
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soliloquy
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A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener
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parallelism
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The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases
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antithesis
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strongly contrasting ideas
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synecdoche
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a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
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apostrophe
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a rhetorical device by which a speaker turns from the audience as a whole to address a single person or thing
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