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21 Cards in this Set
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chronological order
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arranged in the order of time of occurance
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third person limited
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the story teller is not involved in the story
~not have all the facts |
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foreshadowing
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the authors use of vlues to hint at what might happen later in the story
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prose
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everyday language ( as we speak it)
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alliteration
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the repitition of intial consonant sounds
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literary Allusion
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a literary technique whereby a writer makes a subtle reference to another piece of literature
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climax
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the turning point or main action of a story
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Allegory
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~fairly long
~animals and things as characters ~moral is not stated; usually several morals |
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setting
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the time and place of the action
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third person omniscient
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told by someone outside of the story
~knows the entire story |
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stanza
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a formal division of lines in a poem
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fable
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~short ~characters are animals or things and animals represent humans
~the moral is stated |
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flashback
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a scene within a story that intrerupts the sequence of events to relate events that occured in the past.
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poetry
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language which is rhytimical
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theme
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central message, concern, or purpose in a literary work.
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parable
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~short
~everyday ppl in everday situation ~the moral is not stated and the reader figures it out |
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irony
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a literary technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions
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personification
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a literary technique where the author gives human like characteristics to non- human things
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rhyming pattern
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a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
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first person
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a character in the story tells a story from his/ her points of view
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paraphrase
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A restatment of a text or passage in another form or in other words, often to clarify meaning
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