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47 Cards in this Set
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Fiction
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-tells us how human beings act in situations
-let us know characters more intimately -memorable character-> plot is secondary |
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Direct Characterization
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wirter tells what character is like/writer does the work
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Indirect Characterization
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Reader Does Work
1. appearance 2. speech 3. private thoughts 4. effects on others/other people's thoughts 5. actions |
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Protagonist
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main character that the attention is focused on
-usually admirable -real, complicated, strengths, weaknesses |
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Beginning of a story's action
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Main character sets out to get what they want
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Antagonist
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character in a story that comes in the way of the protagonist
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Dynamic character
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changes in an important way throught the story
-gains understanding of something -makes important decision -capable of growing and learning |
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Static character
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exactly the same throughout
-not failures -meant to be static |
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Flat Character
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-1 or 2 personality traits
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Round Character
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a character that cannot be summed up easily and is very complex and 3-dimensional
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stock character
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a person who fits preconceived notion about a "type"
"dozens of them" |
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Character's motivation
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What moves the character to act the way he or she does
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Tone
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attitude of the writer or speaker toward the audience
0varying pitch, volume, emphasis |
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Figurative Language
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language based on some kind of comparision that is not literally true
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Figure of Speech
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language shaped by play at imagination, in which one thing is compared with something that seems to be entirely different
-similes metaphors, personification |
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Similes
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figures of speech that use words such as like or as to compare things that may have little or nothing in common
-should be striking and imaginitive -unexpected |
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metaphor
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comparision between unlike things that is instant
-no an, like, as, or resembles |
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ironic
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situation is oppositve of the well run one
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parody
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humorous imitation
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personification
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attributing human qualities to a nonhuman thing or abstract idea
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symbol
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an ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have extraordinary meaning and significance
-apple= biggest city -snake around sticks= medicine |
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public symbol
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symbol that has maintained significance in art and literature to this day
-lion, fish=christ, eagle=US, rising sun=Japan |
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invented symbol
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writers take a new subject or event and make it embodiment of human concern
-melville's moby dick -shapespeare's caliban in "the Tempest" |
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image
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representation of anything we can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell
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imagery
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names something we can see, smell, taste, hear, or tough; particular descriptive shading poet chooses to give sensory experience
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rhyme
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repitition of accented vowel sounds and all subsequent sounds in a word
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end rhyme
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rhyme occurs at the end of line
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internal rhyme
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rhyme occurs within a line
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exact rhyme
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perfect rhyme- cat/hat
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approximate rhyme
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repitition sound is similar but not exact "half/slant rhymes"
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alliteration
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repitition of consonant sounds in words that appear close together.. occur at beginning of words or accented syllables
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onomatopoeia
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the use of words that sound like they mean
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Satyr play
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(named for lecherous wood demons, satyrs, formed the chorus) comic, racous treatments of same themes
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Greek Theater
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Dionysus theater
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Tragedy
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to arouse pity and fera in audience so that we may be purged or cleansed of unsettling emotions
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catharsis
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emotional purging.. realeases exhileration
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tragic flaw
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fundamental character weakness
-excessive pride, ambition, jealsousy |
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter
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iambic pentameter
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each line of poetry contains 5 iambs
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foot
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a divded line of formal verse that contains at leats one stressed syllable and one or more unstressed syllables
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iamb
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a foot that contains an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed sylable prepare
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pentameter
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5 iambs in a line
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blank verse
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5 feet of unrhymed iambic meter
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end-stopped line
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lines that conclude with a apunctuation mark
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run-on lines
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lines that do not end with a a punctuation mark
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archaic
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words that are old-fashioned and no longer used
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archaic pronouns
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forms of you
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