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31 Cards in this Set
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Rhetorical triangle |
Writer Audience Subject |
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Plot |
Sequence of events in story |
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Plot diagram |
Depicts plot |
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Indirect characterization |
Character's thoughts and actions |
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Direct characterization |
Narrator's description of characters |
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Personification |
Giving human qualities to inanimate objects |
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Theme |
Lesson/moral in the story |
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Short stories |
Narrative with a lesson/ironic twist |
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Parallelism |
Repeated key word/phrase to show parallel events |
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Juxtaposition |
Places two opposite things in close proximity |
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Diction |
Word choice |
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Repetition |
Repeat word/phrase/sound |
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Syntax |
Sentence structure |
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Situational irony |
Expect one outcome, get another |
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Dramatic irony |
Audience knows, characters don't |
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Verbal irony |
Speaker says the opposite of what they mean |
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Allusion |
Reference to historical events/person/thing |
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Simile |
Comparison using like or as |
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Hyperbole |
Exaggeration |
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Figurative language |
Enhances writing (metaphor, simile, hyperbole) |
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Mood |
How the author makes the reader feel |
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Tone |
Voice the author uses |
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Paradox |
Contradiction that may yet prove true |
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Point of view |
View used by the author to present the story |
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Syllogism |
Conclusion based on premises |
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Rhetoric |
Effective use of language |
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Connotation |
Definition by context |
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Denotation |
Dictionary definition |
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Ethos |
Ethics, credibility |
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Logos |
Logic, reasoning, facts |
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Pathos |
Emotion, pluck heartstrings |
