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11 Cards in this Set
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Meter |
Patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem |
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Mood |
The prevailing emotional attitude in a literary work |
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Narrator |
Person telling the story |
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Metaphor |
Figurative language where two normally dissimilar things are compared. It can be directly stated or implied |
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Onomatopoeia |
A word whose sound suggests its meaning |
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Personification |
Figurative language where something non-human is given the ability to do something human |
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Plot |
Sequence of events |
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Point of view |
The manner or perspective in which a story is told |
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Omniscient |
All-knowing, godlike persona or perspective, revealing the thoughts and motives of all the characters, using third person point of view |
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Third person limited |
Point of view that follows only one person's thoughts |
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First person |
Uses a perspective with I and its various forms; also follows one character's thoughts |