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59 Cards in this Set
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Alliteration
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Repitition of initial consinent sounds
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Allusion
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Refferance to another text
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Black Verse
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A poem writen in ianbic pentameter
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Cliche
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A phrase that is commonly used in language and literature
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Connotation
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What is suggested
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Donotation
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The dictionary definition
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Expository
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A piece of writing where you explain something
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First Person Point of View
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Using I and me
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Second Person Point of View
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Using you and they
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Third Person Point of View
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Using he and she
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Limited Point of View
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Where the narrator knows the thoughts of a single character
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Omniscient Point of View
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Where the narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters
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Free Verse
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An unrhymed poem
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Hyperbole
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An extreme exaduration
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Metaphor
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Direct comparison without using like or as
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Mood
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The prevaling mood of the story
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Onomatopoeia
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Words the repeat sounds
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Oxymoron
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A phrase that contredicts itself
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Personification
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Inadimate objects with human characteristics
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Rhyme Scheme
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The pattern of rhyme within a poem
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Simile
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A direct comparison using like or as
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Sonnet
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A poem with 14 lines using any formal rhyme scheme
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Symbol
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An object that represents something else in a story
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Theme
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The provaling message of the story
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Antagonist
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a character in a story who is in conflict with the protagonist
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Atmosphere
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the prevailing mood in a story
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Audience
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the reader or listener of the of the play or story
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Bias
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when someone has a set idea about a topic prior to reading or writing
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Character
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a persona in a story
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Chronological order
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the sequence of events ordered from earliest to present
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Climax
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the most exciting moment in the story
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Colloquial
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slang
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Compare
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looking for the similarities
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Internal Conflict
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when a character struggles with an idea or situation within their mind
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External Conflict
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struggle with another person or society as a whole
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Contrast
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finding difference
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Dynamic character
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when a character changes or evolves though out the coarse of the story
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Falling action
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events after the climax that lead to the end of the story
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Figurative language
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Not literal, used to create images or emotion in the readers mind
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Flashback
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Chronological events interrupted by a memory
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Flat character
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a character who never changes
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Foil
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a character whos the opposite to another character
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Foreshadowing
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a hint to the reader or audience of something is going to happen
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Genre
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type of story
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Irony
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when the opposite of what is expected
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Jargon
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language that is specific to a group of people
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Metaphor
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direct comparison without like or as
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Mood
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same as atmosphere
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Narrator
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the person who tells the story
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Plot
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events in a story
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Resolution
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when a conflict is solved
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Rhyme
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to words that sound the same
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Sarcasm
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the opposite of what is stated
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Satire
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using comedy to address a real problem
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Slang
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unofficial language that is commonly used
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Stanza
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poem paragraph
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Static character
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a character who does not change
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Stereotyped character
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a character who fits into the stereotype perpetuated by society
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Style
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the way the writer writes
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