Literary Terms For Exam

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satire

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is a writting that ridicules or exposes the fault of individuals groups institions or humanity at large

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tone

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attitude

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transecendentalism

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an american literary and philosophical movement in the 19th century.

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plain style

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type of writing in which uncomplicated sentenced and ordinary words are used to make simple direct statements.

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regionalism

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literature is the tendency among certain authors to write about specific geographical areas customs beliefs and history!

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naturalism

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was a literary movement among novelists at the end of the 19th century and during the early decades of the twenith century.

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mood

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or atmosphere is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage. setting tone events all influence the mood

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verbal irony

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a word or a phase is used to suggest the opposite of its usual meaning

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dramatic irony

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there is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows!

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situational irony

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and event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the characters of the readers or of the audience

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direct characterization

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author simply tells the reader what a character is like

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inderect characterization

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which characters traits are revealed though

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apohorism

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short saying with a message

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point of view

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is the perspective or vantage point from which a story is told

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omniscient point of view

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the narrator is an observel who can relate everything that happens as well as the private thoughts and feelings of all the characters

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limited point of view

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readers information is limited to what a single character feels think and observes

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forshadowing

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a literary work is the use of clues to suggest events that have yet to occur

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allusion

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is a reference to well known person place events literary work or work of art. writers often make allusion from the Bible..

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realism

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is the presention in art of the details of actual life

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romanticism

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was a literary and artistic movement of the 19th century. imaination emotion nature indidvuality and exotica.

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stream of consciousness

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a technque in which a character is thought are presented as the mind experience them in short burst without obvious logic