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21 Cards in this Set
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Drama |
play;acted out;fiction |
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comedy |
protagonist situation goes from bad to good |
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Satire |
humorous author Mocks human weakness |
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parody |
Copy style makes fun of it conscious imitation |
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verisimilitude |
The degree to which setting seems real or true |
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omniscient identification |
The narrator telling the story knows everything there is to know about the characters and their problem |
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Foreshadowing |
use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the story |
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universal symbol |
familiar symbols one most people would know |
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invented symbols |
New symbols one that can only be understood from the context |
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motivation |
reason for doing something |
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Flat character |
only one or two character traits that can be described in a few words character has no depth |
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round character |
like a real person, this character has many traits |
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stock |
if filler character, doesn’t have a name or dialogue |
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dialect |
particular way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain region or group of people |
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denotation |
The actual definition of a word |
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connotation |
all the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests |
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allusion |
reference to something religious, historical, or mythological within a literary work |
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irony |
A contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality |
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situational irony |
when there’s a contrast between what would seem appropriate what really happens ;cliffhanger |
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verbal irony |
what a writer says one thing but really mean something completely different |
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dramatic irony |
when the audience or reader knows something important that a character does not know |
