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24 Cards in this Set
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Antagonist |
a character in a story who opposes or competes with the protagonist |
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Autobiography |
an author's life story written by the author |
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creative nonfiction |
a nonfiction work that incorporates literary techniques |
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Figurative language |
words used to express meaning beyond the ordinary literal level |
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foreshadowing |
a hint of what is to come |
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hyperbole |
exaggeration used for emphasis |
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metaphor |
calling one thing another to express similarities |
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narrative |
an account of connected events in a sequence of written or spoken word |
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patois |
dialect of a region differing from the country |
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pov |
the perspective from which a speaker or writer presents information |
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situational irony |
incongruity between actual results and expected results |
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symbol |
a person place or thing representing a concept |
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unreliable narrator |
a narrator who cannot be trusted to relate events accurately |
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verbal irony |
using words to convey a meaning that is opposite their literal meaning |
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I Know why the caged bird sings |
Maya Angelou |
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On Looking Further into the Bodies of Men |
Diane Schoemperlen describes the male body from top to bottom |
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Sherwood Anderson |
Hands repeatedly mentions hands |
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Monica Wood |
Disappearing a woman swims to anorexia |
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings an angel falls to earth and weird things start happening |
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Barry Yourgrau |
Domestic Scene |
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Eudora Welty |
Why I Live at the PO lots of ! stella rondo and the lot |
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Brandon Ambrosino |
An Open Letter to Straight Men |
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Gyasi S Byng |
Beige Girl Problems racist jokes |
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Lucas Kavner |
This Recession is Awesome! |
