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38 Cards in this Set
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Expostion |
Introduces story line, setting, characters |
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Rising Action |
Action builds (story line) might introduce conflict, dev. characters |
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Climax |
Highest point of action |
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Falling Action |
Action begins to conclude- conflicts come to an end |
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Resolution/denouement |
Loose ends are tied up (action ceases/conflicts) |
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Alliteration |
Repetition of an intial consonant sound |
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Allusion |
Reference to a historical event to connect ideasor develop a lesson |
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Antagonist |
plays the role in opposition of the protagonist "bad guy" |
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Aside |
character is intended to be heard by audience but not heard by other characters "Breaking 4th Wall" |
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Assonance |
Repetition of a vowel sound within the word |
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Characteristic |
a feature about a person, place, or thing (identify it) |
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Conflict |
arguments or serious problem -Internal- a struggle or conflict in a person's mind -External- man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. supernatural |
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Dialogue |
conversation between two or more people |
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Figurative Language |
Language that can not be taken literally |
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Flashback |
a scene or when someone thinks of a time earlier than what it is now |
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Hyperbole |
exaggerated statements |
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Imagery |
Visually descriptive phrase |
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Irony |
Situation with unexpected results |
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Metaphor |
Comparing two unlike things |
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Onomatopoeia |
words that are spelled like the sound it makes |
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Oxymoron |
Opposite word pairing |
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Personification |
unliving object given human-like qualities |
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Plot |
main events |
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Archetype |
Typically idea/ stereotype |
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Connotation |
feeling a word avokes Ex= discipline = negative |
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Denotation |
literal meaning of a word |
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Narrator |
a person delivering a commentary |
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Point of View |
Narracters positions in a relation to a story (1st, 2nd & 3rd person) |
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Protagonist |
The main character "good guy" |
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Rhyme |
Correspondence of sound in words |
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Setting |
place or type of surrounding where an event takes place |
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Simile |
figure of speech comparing one ting & other thing of a different kind |
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Speaker |
person who speaks |
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Stanza |
group of lines forming mectrical unti in a poem |
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Symbol/ symbolism |
thing that represents or stands for somethin else |
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Theme |
subject of a piece of writing, talk, persons thought, topic |
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Tone |
general character or attitude of place, piece of writing, situation, etc. |
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Mood |
to include or suggest a feeling or state of mind |
