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20 Cards in this Set
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Satire
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Humorous writing or speech used to point out errors, falsehoods, foibles, or failings.
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Mood
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Feeling or atmosphere in a literary work.
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Situational Irony
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What happens is different than what is expected.
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Motif
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A unifying element in an artistic work, especially any recurrent image, symbol, or theme.
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Dynamic Character
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A character who changes through a story.
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1D/Static Character
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A character who does not change, or changes very little, during a story.
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Foil
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a character, usually static, designed to highlight qualities of a major character.
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Archetype
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An inherited, often unconscious, ancestral memory or motif that recurs throughout history and literature.
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Alliteration
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Consecutive or neighboring words beginning with the same consonant sound.
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Repetition
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Words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythms and to create emphasis.
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Personification
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Giving human qualities to non-human things
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Parallelism
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Grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence.
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Foreshadowing
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Hints or clues about what is going to happen later in a story.
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Symbol
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An object, person, place, or action that not only has a meaning in itself, but also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value.
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Bildungsroman
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A story which tells of a hero's growth and development from youth to adulthood.
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Allusion
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An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, or theme found in literature, the other arts history, myths, religion, or popular, and culture.
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Simile
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A comparison between two unalike things using "like" or "as."
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Metaphor
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A comparison between two unlike things.
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Dialogue
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Conversation in literary work.
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INterjection
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A word added to a sentence to convey emotion.
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