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31 Cards in this Set
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Setting |
the time and place in which the events of literary work occur |
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Plot |
the sequence of events in a story |
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Characters |
the people, animals, or beings in a work |
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Theme |
the main idea or message a literary work conveys |
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Point of View |
the relationship of the narrator or storyteller to the story |
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Conflict |
the struggle between opposing forces in the plot of the story |
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1st Person Point of View |
the narrator is a character in the story who tells the story using the pronoun I |
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2nd Person Point of View |
the narrator uses the pronoun you to address the reader directly |
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3rd Person Point of View |
the narrator is an outsider to the story who reports the events of the story to the reader |
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3rd Person Omniscient |
all-knowing, point of view, the narrator stands outside the story and comments on the action. (third person POV) |
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Dialogue |
the exact words spoken between characters |
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Flashback |
when a character pauses o remember something that happened prior to the current action |
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Foreshadowing |
a device in which the writer places clues in a story to prepare the reader for events that are going to happen later |
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Irony |
a contrast between appearance and reality |
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Situational Irony |
exists only when the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected |
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Dramatic Irony |
when readers are aware of events or circumstances in a story of which the characters have no knowledge |
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Style |
the choices hat a writer makes about words and sentences in a work |
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Tone |
the writer's/speaker's attitude toward the subject of the passage |
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Hyperbole |
a device in which an author uses extreme exaggeration in order to emphasize a point or to create a humorous effect |
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Archetype |
the basic pattern or model of a widespread idea or thing |
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Allusion |
a reference in a work of literature to something from another piece of literature, art, music, or history |
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Symbolism |
such as an object, a person, a place, or an experience, to represent something else |
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Figurative Language |
used to describe and imply indirectly (such as a simile or a metaphor) |
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Imagery |
refers to words and phases that create a picture that appeals to one or more of the reader's five senses |
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Motif |
a recurring idea, image, or group of images that unifies a work of literature |
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Mood |
an emotional quality or atmosphere |
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Alliteration |
[sound devices] the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words |
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Assonance |
[sound devices] the repetition of vowel sounds |
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Consonance |
[sound devices] the repetition of consonant sounds within words or at the end of words |
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Onomatopoeia |
[sound devices] the use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes |
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Personification |
a literary technique that gives human qualities to animals, objects, elements of nature, or anything that is not human |
