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20 Cards in this Set
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symbols
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thing, person, or event used to r4epresent a larger idea
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allegory
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a story whose characters are represented symbolically
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theme
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the central meaning or idea of a literary work
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protagonist
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hero in a story(“good guy”, main character
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antagonist
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opponent or enemy in a story(“bad guy”)
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irony
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an outcome or circumstance that is the opposite of what you might expect
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foreshadowing
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clues that hint what will happen next
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motif
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an element that reoccurs in stories from many cultures and from many periods in history
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inference
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a guess based in info in reading and background knowledge
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predicting
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to guess what will happen
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tone
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the author’s attitude or feeling about the subject
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mood
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the way the reading makes you feel(the atmosphere)
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first person
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written like a character in the story is telling what they observed and how they feel
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3rd person limited
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written like the narrator is inside the mind of one of the characters, this allows the narrator to tell about his thoughts and feelings of the character
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3rd person omniscent
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written like the person telling the story knows everything about all the characters including the characters feelings and thoughts
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direct characterization
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stating directly what the character is like
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indirect characterization
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showing characters in action and let us decide how they are
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style
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the way a writer uses language, style results from diction(word choice), sentence structure(i.e. choppy sentences) and tone
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denouement
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the resolution of the story
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charcterization
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the way an author reveals a character
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