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41 Cards in this Set
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Auto biography
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by his or her life
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Biography
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about a persons life told by another person
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Character
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person in a story play or poem
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Indirect Characterization
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clues to figure out the character
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Conflict
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struggle between characters
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External Conflict
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struggle outside
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Internal Conflict
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struggle inside
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Description
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type of writing intended to create a mood or emotion to recreate a person, place, a thing, an event,or an exercise
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Dialect
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a way of speaking
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Dialogue
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conversation between two or more characters
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Drama
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story that is written to be acted for an audience
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Exposition(1)
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type of writing that gives information or clarifies idea
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Exposition(2)
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is alos the term for the first part of the plot
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Figure of speech
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word or phrase that describes one thing interns of another that is not meant to be under stand on a literal level
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Flash back
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interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time
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Foil
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character who serves as a contrast to another character
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Foreshadowing
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the use of clues to hit at events that will occur later in the plot
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Imagery
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language that appeals to the senses
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Irony
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contrast or discrepancy between execration and reality
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Mood
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atmoshere of a story
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Narration
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type of writing that tells about a series of related events
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Narrator
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the voice telling the story
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Persuasion
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type of writing designed to change the way a reader or listener thinks or acts
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Plot
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series of related events that make up a story
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Point of view
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vantage point from which a writer narrates or tells a story
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Omniscient point of view
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narrator that plays no part in the story
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Third person limited point of view
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ther person who plays no part in the story zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character
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First person point of view
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the narrator is character in the story
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Protagonist
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main character in a fiction or drama
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Satire
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type of writing that radicals human weakness or to bring about social reform
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Setting
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time and place of a story or place
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Soliloquy
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long speech in which a character alone on stage expresses private thoughts or feelings
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Theme
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the central idea or insight about human life revealed by a work of literature
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Tone
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the attitude a writer takes toward
a subject,a character, or a reader |
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Voice
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distinctive use of language in a text
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Noun
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names a person place or thing
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Adjective
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modifies a noun or a pronoun
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Verb
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expresses action or a state of being
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Adverb
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modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb
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Preposition
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I a word that shows the relationship of a noun or a pronoun
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Conjunction
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joins words or word groups
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