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54 Cards in this Set
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Tone
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A way of sounding or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning, feeling, spirit
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Mood
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A distinctive emotional quality of the character or piece
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Persona
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the narrator or a character in a literary work, that the author creates (mask)
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Symbol
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Something used for or regarded as representing something else; emblem, token
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Metaphor
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A figure in speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
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Enjambment
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the running on of the thought from one line,couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break
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End-stopped
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ending at the end of a syntactic unit that is usually followed by a pause in speaking and a punctuation mark in writing
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Caesura
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a break, especially a sense pause in the middle of a verse sometimes marked with a vertical line
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Assonance
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vowel rhyme
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Alliteration
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Same Sam
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Consonance
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the use of the repetition of consonants or consonant patterns as a rhyming device
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Image
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A series of words that evoke one or more of the five sense
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Sibilance
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Characterized by a hissing sound
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Abstraction
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anything apart from the material world"to draw away"
This is How you talk about culture,beauty,morality |
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Generalization
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Something, creatures, kitchen equipment
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Judgements
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its beautiful, ugly
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Denote
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Literally referring to the meaning
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Connote
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Imply through layers of connections
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Concrete
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there is an image
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Metonymy
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One thing is represented by another thing ex crowns of europe, crowns mean kings
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Synecdoche
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hands on deck (hands mean men)
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Syntax
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the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language
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Exposition
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Play is presented through a situation someone is telling us what is going on
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et cetera
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He had dogs,cats, guinea pigs
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Point of attack
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Action begins
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Fourthwall Realism
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the set, the audience seeing the performance
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Stage lie
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Subtext, through stumbling
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Diegetic sound
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realist through action, someone playing the piano
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NonDiegetic Sound
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Background you can't see it being performed
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Verbal Irony
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the device by which we say one thing and mean another
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Dramatic Irony
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the audience has information that the character doesn't
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Cosmic Irony
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Our perception of the human condition in which our efforts are thwarted
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Omniscient
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godlike narrator
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Perpheral Narrator
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edge of the action, not living it
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Limited Omniscient
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Character thoughts and observe from the outside
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Objective
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Whatever is present to the senses
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Setting
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the physical world of the work
the time in which the action of the work takes places the social environment of the characters |
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Conflict
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person vs person
Triangular conflict an added character -inner conflict character with two minds |
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Monologue
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using a confidant or foil
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Cosmic Conflict
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spouse vs spouse, employee ve boss
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Ritual
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an action or serier of actions performed according to a prescribed order
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Flat Writing
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Abstractions
Generalizations Judgements |
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Vivid Writing
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Concret, significant details
Words that envoke the senses |
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Literal Imagery
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Direct Description
mental impression created by direct description someone,some feeling,some vision Places you right in the scene |
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Figurative Imagery
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figure of speech
key in poetry metaphor,simile |
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Image is worth
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Expands our sensory perception
make the abstract graspable allows to writers way of seeing the world |
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Character Voice
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not the writer speaking through a mask but rather the writer creating a distinct person"chosen memory"
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Stock Character
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Derived either from commonly held generalization about racial or social types or from conventions of literature
ex femme fatale |
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Detail
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There is a degree of focus and specificity
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Anaphora
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he repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses or paragraphs
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informal
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the bullet-riddled moon
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formal
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alas the moon besmirched
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Tertiary
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setting provides a physical location for the character and the actions
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Story
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Conflict
Complication Crisis Falling action Resolution |
