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15 Cards in this Set
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A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling or to create comic or satiric effects.
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Hyperbole
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The feeling or atmosphere that an author creates in a literary work.
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Mood
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An object, a person, a place or an experience that represents something else, usually something absract.
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Symbol
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The sequence of events in a literary work.
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Plot
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When the complications, twists, intesification of the conflict occur.
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Rising Action
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Logical result of conflict and climax.
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Falling Action
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The central character in a literary work around whom the main conflicts occur.
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Protagonist
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The main idea or message of a literary work. It may be directly stated but more often it is implied.
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Theme
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Words used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly. They are not literally true.
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Figurative Language
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An implied camparison between things that have something in common but are essentially unlike.
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Metaphor
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A refrence in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from another work of literature, music, art, history, mythology, or the bible.
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Allusion
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A figure of speech in which human characteristics are assigned to nonhuman things, or life is attrubutied to inanimate objects.
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Personification
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A person or force in society or nature that opposes the central character in literary work.
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Antagonist
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The final outcome is revealed.
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Resolution
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Emotional highpoint of the literary work.
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Climax
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