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22 Cards in this Set
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Antagonist Character
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works against the main character
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point of view
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who tells the story and how it gets told
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Alliteration
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repetition of initial consonant sounds
"he clasps the crag with crooked hands" |
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Denotation
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the dictonary meaning of a word
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Imagery
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symbolism carried throughout the text
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Persona
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person speaking in a poem
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech in which an implicit comparsion is made between two things essentially unlike.
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Tone
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the writer's speaking attitude towards the subject, the audience or him self. The coloring or emotional meaning of the work
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Protagonist
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main character
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Irony
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a situation or a use of language involving some kind of incronguity or discrpancy
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Ballad
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a fairly short narrative poem written in a songlike stanza form
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Connotation
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what words suggest beyond its dictonary meaning
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Happy ending
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an ending when things turn out well for the protagonist
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Personification
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stories poems plays
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Refrain
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a repeated word or phrase line or group of lines normally at some fixe position in a poem
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Setting
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place atomsphere where the story takes place
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Allegory
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a narrative that has a second meaning beneath the surface
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Conflict
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clash of actions ideas desires wills
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Figurative Language
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employing figure of speech can not be taken literally
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Unhappy ending
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ends will for the antagonist
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Simile
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comparision using like or as
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Symbol
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something that means more than what it is. and object, person, situation or actionthat suggests other means as well.
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