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78 Cards in this Set
- Front
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Plot
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The fabric of our lives
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Expostition
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Introduces the reader to information that is important for understanding the story.
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Exposition
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Introduces the reader to imformation that is important for understanding the story.
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Example of Exposition:
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Telling readers that Little Red Ridding Hood went to the forest to visit her ill Granny.
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Rising Action
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Main conflict is introduced and complicated by outside influences.
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Example of Rising Action:
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When Little Red Ridding Hood meets the Wolf.
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Climax
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The turning point of the story. This is where the main character comes face to face with the conflict.
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Examples of Climax:
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When Little Red Ridding Hood finds out the wolf ate her grandmother, and wanted to eat her too.
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Falling Action
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Main conflict starts to come apart.
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Examples of Falling Action:
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The wolf Eats Little Red and the grandmother.
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Resolution
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Conflict has been worked out and come to a reasonable ending.
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Example of Resolution:
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Little red and Grandma come out of the wolf and go for tea.
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Figurative Language
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When you describe something, comparing it to something else.
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Examples of Figurative Language:
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Similies, Metaphores, imagery, and personification.
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Personification
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Giving something non-living life-like features.
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Example of personification:
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The cloud looks like it was breathing.
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Imagery
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Describing something in depth, where you can almost see it.
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Example of imagery:
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The sky was a pale baby blue with rich white speks where clouds were poking through.
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Onomatopoeia
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The formation of a word.
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Examples of onomatopoeia:
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BOOM! CRASH! SMASH! CLUNK!
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Protagonist
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The protagonist is the "good guy" in the story.
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Example of a protagonist:
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Superman!
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Antagonist
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The "bad guy" in the story.
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Example of an antoagonist:
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The joker!
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Round
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The MAJOR character who over comes conflicts.
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Example of a round charcater:
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The little mermaid.
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Flat
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A minor character who does not undergo any changes or conflict.
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Example of a flat character:
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Tigger in winney the pooh.
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Hyperbole
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An overexaggeration.
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Example of hyperbole:
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I slept for a million years.
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Metaphore
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Comparing two things not using like or as.
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Example of a metaphore:
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He was a rapid river flowing free.
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Simile
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Comparing two things, using like or as.
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Example of simile:
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He was as fierce as a tiger.
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Irony
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The oposite of its literal meaning.
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Example of Irony:
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A firefighter starting a fire.
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Static
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A character who undergoes no change.
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Example of a static character:
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Cinnderella's step mother.
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Dynamic
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Main character who overcomes many conflicts.
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Example of a dynamic character:
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Cinnderella.
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Idiom
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An expression whose meaning is unpredictable.
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Exampole of idiom:
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Making an A on a test.
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Tone
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A writers attitude towards something.
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Example of tone:
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It was a dark and stormy night.
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Allusion
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Calling something to mind without mentioning it.
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Example of allusion:
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"Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities".
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Idioms
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group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
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Example of idiom:
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It's raining cats and dogs
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Symbolism
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Symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
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Example of symbolism:
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Black symbolises death or evil.
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Foreshadowing
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Indication of a future event.
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Example of foreshadowing:
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•The witches in the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth foreshadow the evil events that will follow.
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Point of view
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Particular attitude or way of considering a matter.
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Example of point of view:
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As SHE walked up the hill...ETC
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Flashback
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A vivid memory from the past.
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Example of flashback:
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I remembered standing in that same spot three years ago, watching the building fall with flames.
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Mood
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State of mind or feeling
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Example of mood:
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I felt broken more than ever.
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Dialoge
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A conversation between two people in a book.
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Example of dialoge:
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"Do you like pizza, too?"
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Paradox
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A statement that sounds reasonable.
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Example of paradox:
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Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America.
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Bandwagon
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An activity that becomes fashionable.
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Example of Bandwagon:
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The steak escape. Americas favorite cheesesteak.
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Glittering Generalities
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Appealing words
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Examples of Glittering Generalities:
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NEW! FRESH! PURE!
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Citing Statistics
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Importance to an argument.
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Example of Citing Statistics:
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over the winter, Jamestown's population decreased from 150 people tto 75 people.
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Citing authority
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A summons
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Example of citing authority:
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My daddy is bigger than your daddy!
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Testamonials
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Testifying to a charcacter
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Example of Testamonial:
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The best program I have ever used. Now, I can do my taxes in half the time!
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Analogies
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Comparison about two things.
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Example of Analogies:
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Long is to short as fat is to skinny.
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Appeals to reason, Emotion
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Persuade to reason with someone.
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Example of appeals to reason:
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Fallancy
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Figures of speech
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A word diverged from its normal meaning.
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Example of Figures of speech:
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Onomatopoea: BOOM! SMACK! POW!
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