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30 Cards in this Set
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Epic Hero
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An epic hero is an important figure from a history or legend, usually favored by or even partially descended from deities, but aligned more with the common man
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Foil
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enhance by contrast
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Character
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fictional character: an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story);
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"she is the main character in the novel"
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Irony
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sarcasm: witty language used to convey insults or scorn;
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"he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift
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Archetype
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original: something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies;
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"this painting is a copy of the original"
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Monologue
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A monologue (or monolog) is an extended uninterrupted speech by a character in a drama. The character may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience, especially the former.
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Shakespear
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Paradox
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(logic) a statement that contradicts itself;
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`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"
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Style
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manner: how something is done or how it happens
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"her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"
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Connotation
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Connotation is a subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language,
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emotional association with a word.
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Symbol
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something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible;
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"the eagle is a symbol of the United States"
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Mood
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verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
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Alliteration
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use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
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"around the rock the ragged rascal ran"
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Epic Conventions
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Oft used things
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the saloon
scene, the card game, the bad girl with a heart of gold, the solitary hero, the showdown gun fight in the street, the chase scene, and so on--just so were the ancient Greek stories put together with certain conventions, or "expectations." |
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Imagery
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descriptive language that evokes sensory experience.
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The tall, green trees
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Narrator
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someone who tells a story
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all books
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Romantic Hero
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literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has the self as the center of his or her own existence.
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Tone
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the quality of a person's voice;
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"he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice"
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Epigram
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brief, clever, and usually memorable statement.
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bazinga! (big bang theory)
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Allusion
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passing reference or indirect mention
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'Five score years ago...";
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Satire
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Making fun of something to show something about it
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the onion news network
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Theme
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overall story;
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good/evil; light/dark
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Diction
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the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and style of expression.
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"use concise military verbiage"
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Details
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small parts that make the story
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small tree
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interpreting character
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the way they seem to you
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snape
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Historical Context
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the political, social, cultural, and economic setting for a particular idea or event.
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Drawing Influences
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other works it may pull from
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martin luther king / getsyburg
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arguments
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set of one or more meaningful declarative sentences
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Writers stance
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how the writer views a topic
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JK rowling, gay dumbledore
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Rhetorical devices
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logos, pathos, ethos
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logical appeal
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comparing/contrasting
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finding differences in like or unlike objects
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