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22 Cards in this Set
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Rhythm
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is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds.
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symbolism
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is using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
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style
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what kinds of things the author does
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What are the 3 kinds of irony?
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1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.
2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know. 3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results. |
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irony
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Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.
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humor
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funny
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flashback
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is action that interrupts to show an event that happened at an earlier time which is necessary to better understanding.
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regionalism
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Fidelity to (or honest portrayal of) a particular geographical section by making an accurate representation of its habits, speech, history, folklore or beliefs
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imagism
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into images
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stream of consciousness
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when you just write down what comes to mind just writing thoughts
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haiku
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The term haiku is a fairly late addition to Japanese poetry. The poet Shiki coined the term in the nineteenth century from a longer, more traditional phrase, haikai renga no hokku ("the introductory lines of light linked verse"). To understand the haiku's history as a genre, peruse the vocabulary entries for its predecessors, the hokku and the haikai renga or renku.
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figurative language
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Language that is not intended to be interpreted in a literal sense. Figurative language always makes use of a comparison between different things. By appealing to the imagination, figurative language provides new ways of looking at the world.
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regional dialect
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when you write the story in the dialect of that region
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point of view
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who is telling the story
1st person: told by the "I" point of view 2nd person:narrator 3rd person:he/she |
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coflict
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is the struggle found in fiction. Conflict/Plot may be internal or external and is best seen in (1) Man in conflict with another Man: (2) Man in conflict in Nature; (3) Man in conflict with self.
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realism
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writing about real life
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expatriates
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relating to people who live outside their own country
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dramatic monologue
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A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent listener. As readers, we overhear the speaker in a dramatic monologue. Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" represents the epitome of the genre.
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imagery
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is language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.
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Tanka
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A Japanese poem of five lines, the first and third composed of five syllables and the rest of seven.
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naturalism
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focused on nature
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Modernism
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modern
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