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44 Cards in this Set
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Plot |
Events that take place in a story |
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Setting |
Time date and place of a story |
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Dialogue |
Conversations between characters |
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Dialect |
The use an accent from a particular area or region |
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Mood |
The atmosphere or overall feeling in a story |
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Suspense |
A feeling of tension or anxiety in any story |
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Colloquialism |
Every day language or slang used in literature (cursewords) |
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Narrator |
Voice or character telling a story |
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Oxymoron |
To opposing terms used for description |
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Irony |
An unexpected twist in the story |
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Simile |
A comparison using like or as |
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Comparison without using like or as |
Comparison without using like or as |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word that imitates a sound |
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Personification |
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics |
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Symbol |
Represent something in a figurative way |
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Local color |
Attitudes, dialect and setting up a particular area or region |
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Satire |
Writing that makes fun of something in order to bring about social change |
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Imagery |
A picture and author creates with descriptive words |
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Foreshadowing |
Hints that an author gives of events to come |
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Flashback |
When an author goes back to events that have happened in the past |
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Literary allusion |
When an author refers to another piece of literature he or she assumes the reader will recognize |
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Connotation |
Associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the its literal meaning |
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Denotation |
Precise literal meaning of a word |
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Tone |
The reflection of an authors attitude about his or her subject, characters, and reader (similar to a town in someone's voice) |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of the initial consonant sound |
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Protagonist |
Hero in the story |
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Antagonist |
Character or force in contact with the hero |
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Genre |
A type of literary work |
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Fiction |
Type of story that could happen but did not |
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Science-fiction |
Type of story that is based on scientific principles; it might happen in the future |
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Moral |
The lesson about life that an author conveys |
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Theme |
A central or dominating idea or message in literature – seldom stated, usually abstract, seen through images, actions, characters, and symbols |
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Introduction |
Also called exposition, one characters and setting are introduced |
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Inciting moment |
Sets the action in motion |
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Rising action |
Leads to climax |
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Climax |
Highest point of action and any story |
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Falling action |
Anything after the climax leading to the conclusion |
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Resolution |
Also call denouement, the problems are solved |
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Main character |
The one the reader knows well, round or three dimensional |
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Minor character |
One the reader does not know as well, black or one dimensional |
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Dynamic character |
One who changes over the course of the story |
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Static character |
One who does not change during the course of the story |
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Direct characterization |
When an offer comes out and tells the reader what a character is like |
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Indirect characterization |
When the reader must infer through the actions and thoughts of a character, and those of others, what the character is like |
