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20 Cards in this Set
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Flashback
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Literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate an event from and earlier time
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Foreshadowing
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literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur
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Hyperbole
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a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
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Image
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a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the give senses-- sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.
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Imagery
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The description or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures
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Indirect characterization
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author tells what a charactor looks like, does, and says how other characters react to him or her, readers draw conclusions about character
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Inversion
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a change in the normal word order
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Irony
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involve differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention
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Irony of situation
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an event occurs that contrasts the expectations of the caracters, the reader, or the audience
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Juxtaposition
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poetic or rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another
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Literal language
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uses words in their ordinary senes, the opposite of figurative language
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Metaphor
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a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else
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Metonymy
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the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it
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Monologue
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a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem
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Motif
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serves as a basis for an expanded narractive and is a recurring feature in the word
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Motivation
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a reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts, feelings, actions, or behavior
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Narrator
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a speaker or character who tells a story
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Omniscient narrator
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an all-knowing third person narrator and can reveal to readers what the characters think and feel
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Onomatopoeia
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the use of words that imitate sounds
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Oxymoron
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combines two opposing or contradictory ideas (freezing fire)
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