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20 Cards in this Set
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Literal Language
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Language that means exactly what it says.
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Figurative Language
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When different or extra meaning is given to words or phrases. Figurative language includes metaphors, similes, allegories etc.
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Simile
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Figurative language used to compare two unlike things by using the words “like” or “as.” It says something is “like” something else, or is “as” something else.
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Metaphor
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A comparison of two unlike things. It says something is something else.
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Personification
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Figurative Language that gives human abilities or characteristics to non-human things.
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Onomatopoeia
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Words created to represent sounds.
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Alliteration
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The repetition of the similar sounds at the beginning of words in close relationship to each other.
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Connotation
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The emotional association associated with some words. While words may share a similar definition (denotation) they often vary in their emotional association (connotation).
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Denotation
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The dictionary definition of words.
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Theme
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The over-arching idea, message, moral or life-lesson that connects, and runs through all parts of the story.
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Allusion
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A reference in a work of literature to a character, place, or situation from another work of literature, music, art, or history.
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Symbol/Symbolism
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. An object, person, place, or experience that represents something else. When a concrete noun represents an abstract noun.
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Allegory
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A story with two levels of meaning. A literal one and a symbolic one (parables, fables etc.).
The characters, settings and events all symbolically represent something else. |
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Characterization
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The method an author uses to reveal a character’s personality. The author shows the reader what a character is like, instead of telling them directly.
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Foreshadowing
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An author’s use of clues that hint at events that will occur later in the plot.
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Hyperbole
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An intentional exaggeration or overstatement for effect or emphasis.
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Understatement
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An intentional down playing of the truth for effect or emphasis.
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Irony
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The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. 2.When the last thing you would expect to happen happens.
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Imagery
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When an author paints pictures or sensations in the mind of the reader by using details that appeal to the five senses.
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Mood
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The feeling a created in the reader through the writer's use of sensory details.
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