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79 Cards in this Set
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Act
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a major unit of drama
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Alliteration
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the repition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
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Allusion
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a reference in a work of literature to a well-known character, place, or situation from another work of literature, music, or art or from history
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Antagonist
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a person or force that opposes the protagonist, or central character, in a story or drama.
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Anthropomorphism
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representing animals as if they had human emotions and intelligence
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Assonance
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the repition of vowel sounds, espicially in a line of poetry
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Author's purpose
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the intention of the writer
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Autobiography
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the story of a person's life written by that person
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Ballad
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a short musical narritive song or poem
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Biography
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the account of a person's life written by someone other than the subject
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Character
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a person in a literary work
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Characterization
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the methods a writer used to develop the personality of the character
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Climax
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the point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in a narritive
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Comedy
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a type of drama that is humorous and has a happy ending
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Conflict
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the struggle between two opposing forces that lies at the center of a plot in a story or drama
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External Conflict
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exists when a character struggles against some outside force
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Internal Conflict
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exists within the mind of a character who is torn between opposing feelings or goals
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Consonance
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a pleasing combination of sounds, espically in poetry
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Description
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writting that seeks to convey the feeling of any external experience: a setting, a person, an animal, and so on
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Details
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particular features of things used to make descriptions more accurate and vivid
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Dialect
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a variation of language spoken by a particular region
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Dialogue
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conversation between characters in a literary work
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Drama
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a story usually performed by actors on a stage or before movie or TV cameras
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Essay
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a short piece of nonfiction writting on a single topic
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Extened metaphor
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an implied comparision that continues through the entire poem
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Fable
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a short, usually simple tale that teaches a moral and sometimes uses animal characters
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Falling action
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in a play or story, the action that follows the climax
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Fantasy
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a form of literature that explores unreal worlds of the past, the present, and the future
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Fiction
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a prose narritive in which situations and characters are invented by the writer
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Figurative language
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language used for descriptive effect, often to imply ideas indirectly
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Figure of Speech
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a specific kinds of figurative language such as metaphor, personification, simile, or symbol
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Flashback
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an interruption in a chronological narrative that tells about something that happened before that point in the story or before the story began
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Folklore
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the traditional belief, customs, stories, somgs, dances of a culture
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Folktale
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an anonymous, traditional story passed down orally long before being writting down
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Foreshadowing
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the use of clues by the author to prepare readers for events that will happpen in a story
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Free verse
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poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement
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Genre
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a division of literature
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Hero
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a literary work's main character, usually one with admirable qualities
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Historical fiction
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a novel, play, short story, or narrative poem that sets fictional characters against a historical backdrop and contains many details about the period in which it is set
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Humor
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the quality of a literary work that makes the characters and their situations seem funny, amusing, or ludicrous
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Imagery
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language that emphasizes sensory impressions that help the reader of a literary work to see, hear, feel, smell, and taste the scenes described in the work
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Informational text
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one kind of nonfiction
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Irony
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a contrast between reality and what seems to be real
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Legend
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a traditional story handed down orally based on history and an actual hero
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Lyric
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the words of a song, usually with aregular rhyme scheme
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Lyric peom
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poems, usually short, that express personal feelings about a subject or event
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Main idea
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the most important idea expressed in a paragraph in a paragraph or an essay
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Memoir
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a biographical or autobiographical narritive; an account of an event or period emphasizing the narrator's personal experience
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech that compares or equates seemingly unlike things
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Meter
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a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm
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Monolouge
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a long speech by a single character ina play or solo performance
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Mood
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the emotional quality or atmosphere of a story
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Myth
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a traditional story of anonymous orgin that deals with goddesses, gods, heros, and supernatural events
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Narration
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the kind of writting or speech that tells a story
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Narrative poetry
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verse that tells a story
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Narrator
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the person who tells a story
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Nonfiction
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factual prose writting
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Novel
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a book-length fictional prose narrative
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of a word or phrase that actually initattes oor suggests the sound of what it describes
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Oral tradition
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literature that passes by word of mouth from one generation to the next
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Personification
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a figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea, is given human form or characteristics
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Plot
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the sequence of events in a story, novel, or play
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Plot twist
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an unexpected turn of events in a plot
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Poetry
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a form of literary expression that differs from prose in emphasizing the line as the unit of compassion
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Point of view
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the relationship of the narrator to the story
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First-person point of view
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the story is told by one of the charaters
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Limited third-person point of view
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the narrator reveals the thoughts of only one character, but refers to that character as "he" or "she"
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omnisicent point of view
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the narrator reveals the thoughts of several characters
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props
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theatre slang for objects and elements of scenery of a stage play or movie set
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prose
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writing that is simular to everyday speech and written language, as opposed to poetry or drama
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protagonist
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the central character in a story, drama, or dramatic poem
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refrain
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a line or lines repeated regularly, usually in a poem or song
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repetition
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the recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a sppech or piece of writting
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resolution
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the part of a plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict
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rhyme
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the repitition of sounds in words that appear close to each other in a poem
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end rhymes
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occurs at the end of lines
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internal rhymes
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occurs within a single line
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slant rhymes
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occur when words include sounds that are simular but not identical
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rhyme scheme
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the pattern of rhymes formed by the end rhyme in a poem
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