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61 Cards in this Set
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setting
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the enviorment in which the story takes place
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exposition
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the begining of the story
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protagonist
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the central character of the story
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antagonist
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the protagonist adversary
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inciting incident
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interupts the harmony and balance of the situationand introduces the conflict
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rising action
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the part of the story in which the tension rises towards the climax
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falling action
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the oart of the story that follows the climax the leads to the resoulution
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conflict
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the central source of tension and drama in the story; the problem
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theme
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the message to the story
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irony
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a particular tone created when the speaker intends a meaning that is opposite to the words he or she says
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round character
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with complex with several traits
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flat character
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with single traits
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static character
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changes little or not at all
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dymanic character
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changes in response to the actions through which he or she passes
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Man vs. Man
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conflict between to people
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Man vs. Society
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conflict between a person and the society
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Man vs. Self
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conflict between a person and themself
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Man vs. Technology
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conflict between a person and
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Man vs. Nature
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conflict between a person and and the world
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tone
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writer's or speaker attitudes toward a subject,character,or audience:it is conveyed through the author's choice words and detail
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Word Choice/ Diction
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word choice intended to convey a certain effect
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Imagery
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when you can picture it
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Style & Syntax
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surbordinating clause
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A.W.U.B.I.S
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past participal phrase
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-ed on the first word
Ex. Rushed to the market...... |
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present participal phrase
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-ing on the first word
Ex. Allowing a man to enter |
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gerund phrase
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the verb is the subject
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prepostional phrase
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prepositional phrase at the beginning.
Ex. At school on monday...... |
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Color of Water
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James Mcbride
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To kill a mocking bird
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Harper Lee
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Animal Farm
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George Orwell
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The Scarlet Ibis
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james hurst
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Thank you m'am
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Langston Hughes
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metaphor
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comparing not using like or as
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personification
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added added human qualities to animals
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simile
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comparing something using like or as
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hyperbole
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being dramatic
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rhetorical fragment
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sentence fragment used delibertely for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect
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parrellelism
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grammatical sturctural similarity between sentence sentence or part of a sentence
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juxapsoition
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putting two or more opposite thing together that often creating an effect of surprise and wit
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polysyndeton
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deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis
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assonance
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the repetition of vowel sounds
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words which mimic the sounds they describe
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consonance
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the repetition of a consonant sound within nearby words
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allusion
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a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing
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asyndeton
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deliberatte omission of a word of conjunction in a seriesof related clauses
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symbolism
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an image, object,character,or action that stands for an idea beyond its literal meaning
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repetition
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device in which sounds, words,and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis
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anaphora
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of
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anadiplosis
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repetitionof the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
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epanalepsis
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repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of the clause
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epistrophe
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repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses
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idiom
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an expression whose meaning is different from the sum of the meaning of the individual word
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oxymoron
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a form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression
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inversion
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loose sentence
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makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending of the sentence
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periodic sentence
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makes sense fully only when the end of the sentence is reached
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simple sentence
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one independent clause
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compound sentence
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two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon
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complex sentence
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an independent clause and one or more suborniate clauses
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compound-complex
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two or more independent clause and one or more suborinate clauses
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