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31 Cards in this Set
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Allegory |
a story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people, events or abstract ideas or qualities |
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Allusion |
a reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics |
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Analogy |
a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike |
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Anti-Hero |
the unconventional central charater who lacks the virtues fo the traditional hero, but for whom we are to feel sympathy nonetheless |
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Atmosphere |
the mood or feeling created in a piece of writing |
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Catalogue |
a list of things, people, events |
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Character |
an individual in a story or play |
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Climax |
that point in the plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, interest |
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Crisis |
the turning point in the story, may be a recognition, a decision, a resolution; the character understands what he/she has not understood before |
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Comedy |
in general, a story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main character(s) |
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Conflict |
the struggle between opposing forces |
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Denouncement |
conclusion or resolution fo a story |
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Description |
a form of discourse that uses words that appeal to the senses in order to create mood or emotion |
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Dialect |
a way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group of inhabitants of a certain geographical area |
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Dialogue |
what characters say |
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Diction |
a speaker or writer's choice of words |
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Epipheny |
a sudden realization or insight, can be on the part of a character or on the part of the reader |
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Episode |
an incident within a larger narrative; has its own beginning, middle, end; but still advances the main plot |
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Exposition |
the technique used to give the information the reader needs to understand the story |
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Fable |
a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life |
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Farce |
a type of comedy in whcih ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in rather silly, far-fetched situations |
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Flashback |
a scene that interrrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened in an earlier time |
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Foil |
a character who acts in contrast to another character |
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Genre |
categories of literature, like poetry, short stories, novels; also specific categories like science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, etc. |
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Hero |
the traditional term for the main character, not as commonly used in contemporary literay conversation |
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Hyperbole |
a figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration or overstatement |
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Imagery |
the use fo language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation or a person, a thing, a place, or an experience |
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Immediacy |
when readers feel that they are present, that the narrative is happening right in front of them; comes from sharp description, crisp dialogue, vivid action |
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Incongruity |
the deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each other |
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Interior Monologue |
lets the reader know what the character is thinking, getting into the character's mind to allow the reader to know him from the inside |
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Irony |
in general, a discrepancy or contrast between appearances and reality (verbal, situational, dramatic) |
