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18 Cards in this Set
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What values does literature give? |
Nourishes our emotions, broadens our perspectives, and encourages a suppleness of mind |
Emotion, Outlook, and mind |
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Canon |
Information that the audience should know |
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Genre |
A type of literary work divided into form, technique, or subject matter (examples: short stories, plays, and poetry) |
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What is the principle of plot? |
Organizing |
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What does setting evoke? |
Mood and atmosphere |
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Unreliable Narrator |
A narrator who is untrustworthy and inaccurate when he or she tells the story |
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Characterization |
The methods by which a writer creates people in a story so that they seem to actually exist |
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Going against the grain |
To act differently than what society decides is accepted |
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Simile |
An explicit comparison between two like terms |
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Metaphor |
An implicit comparison between two like terms, usually a subtle but powerful approach |
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Figure of Speech |
Expression that uses language metaphorically in either a structured or unstructured way, or employs sounds to achieve the rhetorical effect |
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What is the foreground of a poem? |
Its language |
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What do you do when you come to the beginning of a poem? |
Ask questions about the four elements |
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Rifle |
to frantically search for something or someone |
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Setting |
The context in which the action of a story occurs |
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Point of view |
Who tells us the story and how it is told |
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Symbols |
We invest meaning in terms and images to create symbols; def. - a person, object, image, word, or event that suggests more than its literal meaning |
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Plot |
The author's arrangement of incidents in a story |
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