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33 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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-the repetition of sounds in nearby words, usually incolving the first
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Antagonist
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-the force opposing the main character in a story (could be a person, a thing, nature, etc.)
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Autobiography
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-a persons account of his or her life
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Ballad
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-a fairly short, simple poem which tells a story. use to be sung
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biography
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- Detailed account of a persons life written by another person
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Concrete poem
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a poem written in a special shape that usually suggests the poems subject.
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Conflict
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The struggle between two opposing forces or characters. It may be external or internal. It may be in the form of
a) man vs. man b) man vs. environment c) man vs. self |
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Dialogue
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spoken workds exchanged between two or more characters in a story.
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Figure of speech
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special use of language where a word is not suppose to be taken litteraly
eg. It's raining cats and dogs |
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Foreshadowing
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indication of something that may happen later in the story
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Free Verse
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poetry which has no regular patterns of rhyme. meter or line length
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Irony
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Verbal-speaker says opposite of what is meant
situatuional-a difference between what happens and what is expected to happen dramatic-the difference between what the audience knows and what a charachter knwos to be true |
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Literal Meaning
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not figurtive: restricted to the exact stated meaining
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Metaphor
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the comparison of two like things with out using "like" or "as"
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meter
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the pattern of stresses and unstressed syllables
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Myth
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a story often about immortalos and sometimes connected with religious ritulas\
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Narrative Poem
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A poem that tells a story
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Narrator
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The person who tells the story
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Octave
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an eight line poem
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Onomatopoeia
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a word whos sound suggests its meaning
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Passave voice
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what would otherwise be the object of the verb becomes the subject
eg. The car was bought by the woman this morning |
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Personification
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giving non-human things human characteristics
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Plot
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the events as they happen in the story
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prose
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wtiting in normal sentences and paragrahs
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Protagonist
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the main character of the story
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Refrain
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repetition of lines in poems
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Rhyme
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putting words that sound similiar together at the end of lines ussually to emphisize the similarity of there sounds
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Sestet
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a poem or stanza of six lines
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setting
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the time and the place in which the events of the story occur
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similie
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comparision of unlike things using like or as sometimes than
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stream of conciousness
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presentation of flow of thoughts of a character as they pass through its mind without logic or order
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suspence
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the quality of a story that makes the reader uncertain about the outcome
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Villain
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an evil character who acts oppposite to the superhero
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