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31 Cards in this Set
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a dramatic literary, or pictoral device in which each object, character, and event symbolically illustrates a moral or religious principle
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allegory
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words and phrases that re-create vivid sensory experiences for the reader
ex."The boom of the tingling strings." |
imagery
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the repetition of initial consonant sounds
ex.Peter Picked a Peck of Pickeled Peppers |
alliteration
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a writer's use of hints or clues to indicate events that will occur later in a narrative |
foreshadowing
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connecting of a thing, of a person, or happening with another that came after in history; anything that seems to be out of place in history
ex.A Connecticuit Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
anachronism
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a writers choice of words
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diction
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an indirect reference to a historical or literary person, place, thing, or event with which the reader is assumed to be familiar
ex.Oh Brother Where Art Thou-The Oddessy |
allusion
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the part of a literary work that provides the background information necessary to understand characters and their actions
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exposition
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dynamic characters _____
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change
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writing that appears to the senses
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description
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a literal or dictionary meaning
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denotation
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a term, word, or phrase used to characterize a person or thing; an abusive phrase or word
ex."Alexander the Great" |
epithet
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a language that communicates ideas beyond the literal meanings of the words
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figure of speech
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a dramatic work that is light and often humerous in tone, usually ending happily with a peaceful reesolution of the main conflict
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comedy
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debating, offering reason for or against a subject
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argument
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two kinds of conflict
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external-man v. man/nature
& internal-man v. self |
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a brief nonfiction composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal views of the writer
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essay
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the struggle between opposing foreces and is the basis of a plot in dramatic and narrative literature
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conflict
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an account of a converstion, an episode, or an event that happened before the begining of a story
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flashback
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a brief, fictitious story embodying a moral and using persons, animals, or inanimate objects as characters; a false hood; a lie
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fable
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feeling, or mood, that a writer creates for the reader
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atmosphere
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a writer's account of his or her own life and is, in almost every case, told from the first-person point of view
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autobiography
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the individuals who participate in the action of a literary work
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character
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the act of inverting or the state of behing inverted; that which is inverted
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inversion
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literature that developes plot and character through dialogue and action in other words; drama is literature in play form
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drama
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a long narrative poem on a serious subject, presented in an elevated or formal style
ex.The Illiad and The Odessey |
epic
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the emotional response evoked by a word, in contrast to its denotation
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connotation
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static characters _____
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stay the same
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a play that prompts laughter through rediculous situations, exaggerated behavior and language, and physical comedy
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farce
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the particular variety of a language spoken in a definite place by a distinct group of people
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dialect
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an account of a person's life written by another person
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biography
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