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29 Cards in this Set
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Allegory
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A narrative in which persons, places, and events form a system of clearly identifiable equivalents.
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Antagonist
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A character who stands in direct opposition to the protagonist, both restricting and inciting action.
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Archetype
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A literary symbol, motif, image, or character which tends to elicit a common response from peoples of widely separated time and space.
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Character
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One of the persons in the story which can be "flat" or "rounded".
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Conflict
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The struggle which grows out of the interplay between two opposing forces.
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Epiphany
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A moment when the essential nature of something is perceived.
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Foreshadowing
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The use of incidents, characters, tone, imagery, dialogue, and symbolism to suggest what lies ahead.
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Irony
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An expression wherein the actual intent is expressed in words or gestures which carry a different or opposite meaning.
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Metaphor
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An implied comparison whereby the thing at hand is figuratively asserted to be something else.
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Motif
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The underlying pattern of repetition in a literary work, unifying it and give it meaning.
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Plot
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A paradigmatic arrangement of events into cause and effect. This is in contrast to story, which is a narrative of events in their time sequence.
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Protagonist
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The chief character in literature or film.
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Setting
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A story's location in time and place as well as climate.
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Symbol
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On the most literal level, something which is itself and yet stands for something more.
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Verneinung
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A German term meaning "denial". Denotes a phenomenon of consciousness whereby truth is often derived from a person's protestations to the opposite.
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Anti-hero
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The protagonist of modern literature or film, who, having both good and bad qualities, deviates from the model of virtue we usually find in the popular hero.
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Analysis
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The breaking down of something into its parts or functions to show how those smaller parts make up the whole
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Epistemology
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A branch of philosophy that investigates the nature and limits of human knowledge
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Eros
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The Greek god of love who represents the self-sustaining drive in humans, rather than the self-destructive one.
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Metadrama
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Literature which takes on its own dramatic processes as a thematic issue
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Metonymy
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A figure of speech in which some phenomenon is identified by the name of something closely associated with the phenomenon itself.
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Mimesis
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A theory of art which places primary emphasis on the one-for-one correspondence between some phenomenon and its representation in literature.
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Minimalism
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Modern literature characterized by its striking simplicity in presentation, impersonal tone, and abstract plot.
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Personification
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An expression in art wherein animals, nature, inanimate objects, ideas, abstractions, and gods are given human form, character, sensibilities, and frailties.
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Pluralism
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A term applied to a philosophical belief that there is no single set of truths or laws, giving validity to the perceptions of each unique mind.
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Phenomenology
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A philosophy that rejects the popular assumption that objects exist independent of human experience.
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Reversal
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A change in fortune experienced by the protagonist form good to bad, bad to worse, or bad to good.
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Satire
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Criticism of vice and folly typically aimed at human institutions, designed to inspire change.
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Theme
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A generalization about human life that can be drawn from the conflict and resolution of a literary work.
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