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50 Cards in this Set
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ANACHRONISM
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an event misplaced in history
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COINCIDENCE
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the simultaneous occurance of unrelated incidents
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FLASHBACK
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a shift to earlier events
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NOVEL
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a full-length fictitious story
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NOVELETTE
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a fictitious story shorter than a novel but longer than 50 pages
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PLOT
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the pattern of story action
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SUSPENSE
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anxiety as to how things will turn out
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TONE
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attitude or mood of the author
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MOTIF
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a recurring theme or feature
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IRONY
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the implying of an opposite possibility
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LOCAL COLOR
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picturesque, distinctive details
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SETTING
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the physical background for the action
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POINT OF VIEW
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the outlook from which the action is described
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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
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random flow of undigested thoughts
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IRONY OF FATE
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unexpected twist of destiny
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PROTAGONIST
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the main character or hero
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ANTI-HERO
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an unadmirable protagonist
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MOTIVATION
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the cause of a character's action
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CHARACTERIZATION
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how people are portrayed
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SCIENCE FICTION
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fantasies about space travel
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PICARESQUE NOVEL
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a story of a vagabond's adventures
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VICTORIAN NOVEL
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a morally righteous novel of the Dickens-Hardy era
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GOTHIC NOVEL
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a grotesque horror story
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WHODUNIT
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a detective story
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EPISTOLARY NOVEL
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a novel in letter form
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NARRATIVE
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an account of happenings, as in a diary
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SAGA
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a tale of Icelandic heroes
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TETRALOGY
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four related works
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ANTHOLOGY
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a collection of literary pieces
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TRILOGY
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three related works
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ALLEGORY
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a story with a secondary interpretation
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PARODY
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a comical imitation
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SOCIAL CRITICISM
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an exposure of social faults, often serious in tone
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LAMPOON
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a coarse, abusive personal attack
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PARABLE
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a short moral tale
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PORNOGRAPHY
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obscene writing, lacking social value
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SATIRE
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a witty, often sophisticated attack on faults and abuses
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PRIMITIVISM
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admiration for cultures that are not highly civilized
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MYTH
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a popular concept; fictitious milieu
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NATURALISM
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extension of realism, stressing sordidness
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SENTIMENTALISM
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emotionalism in excess
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EXISTENTIALISM
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Sartre's doctrine of man's responsibility
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ALIENATION
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separation from others
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REALISM
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portrayal of life as it is
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REDACTION
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literary revision and reframing
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PSEUDONYM
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a pen name
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INCUNUBULA
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books printed before 1500
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EXPATRIATE
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one who lives abroad
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THESAURUS
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a word treasury for writers
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COMMONPLACE BOOK
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miscellaneous jottings
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