Finals For Lit.

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Any object, person, place, or experience that stands for something else because of a resemblence or assosiation

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Symbol

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the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it;

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Denotation

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A figure of speech that compares seemingly unlike things. DOES NOT use like or as!

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Metaphor

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A short narrative song or poem.

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Ballad

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A traditional story handed down orally and beived to be based on history.

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Legend

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The emotionally quality or atmosphere of a story.

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Mood

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A regular patern of stressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm.

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Meter

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A figure of speech that expresses storng emotion, makes a point, or creats humor through exaggeration.

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Hyperbole

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The use of clues by the author to prepare readers for events that will happen in a narrative.

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Foreshadowing

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An imaginative tale of adventures or amazing feats of North American folk heroes.

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Tall Tale

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The central character of a story, the hero.

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Protagonist

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THe reader is generally meant not to like this character. THe cause of the trouble - bad guy.

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Antagonist

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The repitition of a consonant sound, mmost often at the beginning of a word.

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Alliteration

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Language that emphasizes sense impressions that help the reader see, hear, feel, smell, and taste things desciribed in the work.

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Imagery
(Sorrow Home)

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Taste
Feel
Hear
Smell
See

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Sensory Details

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Poems that express thought or emotions about a subject.

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Lyric Poetry

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Verse that tells a story.

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Narrative Poetry

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Contrast between what is and what ought to be.
Situational-exists when the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what someone has come to expect.
Verbal-exists when a person says one thing and means another.

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Irony

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A variation of language spoken by a particular group, or by many people within a geographical region.

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Dialect

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Relationshio of the narrator to a story.
First person I, Me
Limited third-person-He or She and is outside the story revealing others thoughts.
Omniscient-outside story but can reveal any or all events and almost everything else.

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Point of View

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a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”

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Oxymoron

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Meaning of the statement may have different views.

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Context

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The telling of a sequence of events.

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Narration

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Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse

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Internal Rhyme

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The attitude of the narrator toward a subjec. Eerie, threatening, suspicious, light, even humorous.

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Tone

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A symbolic meaning or representation.
The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships.

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Symbolism

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Literature in which situations and characters are invented by the writer.

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Fiction

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Characters are not invented by the writer. They are real actual like people. Writng based on fact.

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Nonfiction

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Part of plot that comes after the falling action. Reveals or suggests the outcome of a situation.

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Resolution

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Author's choice and arrangment of words.

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Style

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sequence of events in a story, novel, or play. Exposition-rising action-conflicts-climax-falling action-resolution.

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Plot

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A feeling of curiosity, uncertainty, or even dread about what may happen next.

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Suspense

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The time and place in which the events of a story occur.

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Setting

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The point of greatest interest or suspense in a narrative.

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Climax

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The main idea-

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Theme

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The author's introduction to a story-background of a story

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Exposition

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A person or other creature in a literary work. Dynamic and Static.

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Characters

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the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning

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Connotation

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Conversation between two or more characters in a literary work.

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Dialogue

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A reference to a well-known character, place, or situation from another work of literature, music, art, or from history.

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Allusion

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The part of a plot that adds complications to the problems in the story and increases reader interest.

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Rising Action

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Language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meaning of words.

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Figurative Language

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the use of a word or phrase that actually imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.

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onomatopoeia

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A narrative based on an event or person and emphasizing the narrato's personal experience of it.

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Memoir

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A subdivision of an act in a play.

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Scene

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A play in which a main character suffers a downfall. The tone is usually serious and ends very unhappily.

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Tragedy

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In a drama, instructions that describe the appearance and ations of characters, as well as sets, costumes, and lighting.

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Stage Directions

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At the end of a scene or act, a character has a converation with oneself.

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Dramatic monologue

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A major division of a play.

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Act

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An interruption in a chronological narrative. Presents readers with secenes from events that happenned earlier than those in the story.

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Flashback

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A comparison using like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.

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Simile

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Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different,

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True Rhyme

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The pattern formed by the end rhyme in a poem.

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Rhyme Scheme

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The repitition of vowel schemes, especially in a line of poetry.

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Assonance

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The repitition of identical or similar end or intermediate consonant sounds.

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Consonance

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The voice in a poem, like a narrator in a work of fiction.

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Speaker

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a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.

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Couplet

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A character who is not developed as an individual, but who shows traits and mannerisms supposedly shared by all members of a group.

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Stereotype